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HARBISON WAGON, 



Wit HARRISON, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

SUPERIOR 

To all other Wagons for Strength, Durability, Ease and Lightness of Running, made 
of the Best Seasoned Timber* Firmly Ironed, Spendidly proportioned, 
Beautifully Painted, Highly Varnished, and Warranted, 

The BEST and CHEAPEST WAGON in USE 

D. N. WHEELER, General Agent, 
South Eighth Street, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 




FIEST TEAE. 



ST. JOSEPH, 

ITS 



TRADE AND MANUFACTURES. 



BEING A COMPLETE SKETCH OF THE CITY SINCE ITS EARLIEST DATS, 
ITS RAPID GROWTH, ATTRACTIONS, ADVANTAGES, RESOURCES, 
MANUFACTURES, MERCANTILE INTERESTS, RAIL 
ROAD FACILITIES, PROSPECTS, BUSINESS 
HOUSES, ETC., ETC., ETC. 



Danis & Co., Editors and Compilers. 



ST. JOSEPH, MO.: ^ 
Printed by the St. Joseph Steam Printing Company. 
1873. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by 
DANIS & CO., 
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



414 



SALUTATORY. 



To the citizens of St. Joseph — the metropolis of the Mis- 
souri Valley — and especially to its merchants who sustain its 
unrivaled credit, and who work with untiring energy and zeal, 
we proffer our warm and hearty greetings. To them we 
dedicate this volume, setting forth the early history of this 
city, when in the day of small things, the^humble log house 
of its brave pioneer, Joseph Robidoux, was the only evidence 
of civilization in these wilds, and he himself the sole St. 
Josephite ; — passing on to the time when after many years 

" The plough was on the hunting ground " 

of the red man, and the smoke of his white brother's cabin 
was in the air — a time when in peace and quietness, without 
bloody frays or turbulent scenes, the white man peopled this 
beautiful valley : and passing thence onward, when in fewness 
of years the people waxed strong in numbers and banded 
together in unity of citizenship ; until now, these pages show 
how wealth has been gathered and great firms grown up, 
attracting hither the merchants of other cities. 



THE STATE OF MISSOURI. 



The great State of Missouri, with an area of 65,350 square 
miles, was formed out of part of the territory ceded by France 
to the United States by treaty of April 30th, 1803. It was 
created under the name of the " District of Louisiana," by an 
Act creating Louisiana into two territories, approved March 
26, 1804. By another Act passed and approved June 4, 1812, 
the name was changed into that of Missouri. On the 29th 
December, 1819, the Legislative Council and House of Repre- 
sentatives of the territory of Missouri in behalf of the people, 
applied for admission into the Union, the territory at that date 
having about 60,000 population. After much discussion in 
the Senate and House, and frequent reference to committees, 
and a final reference to a joint committee, of which Henry 
Clay was chairman, a resolution was adopted March 2d, 1821, 
providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union. On 
the 10th of August following, the President of the United 
States issued his proclamation, declaring the admission of 
Missouri complete, according to law; and thus the State became 
the eleventh admitted under the Federal Constitution. From 
the date of her admission Missouri has grown rapidly. In 
1820 she numbered 66,586 people; in 1830, 140,455 ; in 1840, 
383,702; in 1850, 682,040; in 1860, 1,067,08; in 1870, 
1,721,295 ; until now she numbers the fifth State in population 
in the whole Union. Her future is full of promise. Immi- 
gration is pouring in rapidly. Manufactures are being promoted 
and encouraged. Her mineral wealth, almost inexhaustable, 
is being rapidly developed. Her agricultural resources are 
marvellous, abounding as she does, in soil whose richness and 
fertility is unsurpassed. Her climate is equable, and of that 
mean of temperature which makes both summer and winter 
healthy and endurable. 



ST. JOSEPH. 



It was at as early a date as when the General Government 
had incorporated the " Territory of Louisiana," as it was 
generally termed to distinguish it from " The Territory of 
New Orleans," that Joseph Eobidoux, born in St. Louis in 
1784, one of those hardy pioneers whose mission seems to be 
to carry civilization into the savage wilds, settled at the base 
of the " Blacksnake Hills." It was at this point that the 
Indians used to cross the Missouri, or " Muddy River," going 
over to the rivers and fertile country beyond for the summer, 
and returning in the winter, where, among the timber of the 
bottom lands of the Missouri, they could find shelter and 
warmth and where game was always abundant. Here 
Robidoux pitched his tents and erected his huts and entered 
into trade, exchanging glass beads and merchandise for the 
costly furs and peltries of the Indians. Long years passed, 
uneventful, probably, in their monotony, for the Indian was on 
good terms with his white brother, who dealt fairly and 
honorably with him. 

In 1840 a treaty was made by the United States with the 
Indian tribes, by which what is known as the "Platte Purchase" 
was opened to settlement by the whites. This included the 
counties of Platte, Buchanan, De Kalb, Nodaway, Holt and 
Atchison, and immediately the newly acquired land began to 
be taken up by emigrants. The Blacksnake Hills settlement 
felt the new impetus given to the growth of the country ; and 
the early pioneer, Eobidoux, was joined by other white men 
who shared with him in his enthusiasm for the locality. In 
May, 1843, the great naturalist, Audubon, visited this spot on 
his way to the Yellowstone. The narrative of his impressions 
is interesting : 



HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 9 



" Leaving here (Fort Leavenworth) we entered the real 
Indian country, on the west side of the river ; for the State of 
Missouri, by the purchase of the Platte River Country, con- 
tinues for 250 miles farther, and here only are settlements of 
whites. After grounding on sand bars and contending against 
hard winds and currents, we reached the Blacksnake Hills 
settlement, which is a delightful site for a populous city that 
will be here some fifty years hence. The hills are two hundred 
feet above the level of the river, and slope gently down on the 
opposite side to the beautiful prairies that extend over thousands 
of acres of the richest land imaginable. Here the general 
aspect of the river greatly changes : it becomes more crooked 
and filled with naked sand bars from which the wind whirls 
the sand in every direction." 

In June, 1843, the original town was laid out after the 
name of the patron saint of its founder, 

SAINT JOSEPH, 

and in 1 844, after he had obtained his title from the land office 
at Plattsburg, he began to sell his lots. These he held at the 
uniform price of $100, except corner lots for which he exacted 
$50 additional. In 1846 the County Seat of Buchanan county 
was removed from Sparta, and this event gave great impetus to 
the growth of the town, which at the close of the year numbered 
600 souls. 

The first store after Mr. Robidoux', was opened in a log 
house by Elias Perry and A. M. Saxton, in the spring of 1843, 
with an assorted stock of merchandise worth $3,000. The first 
post master was Fred. Smith, who carried his office around 
in his hat. The first Church was a house 20x30, erected in 
1845 as a union Church, by Bishop Marvin, Rev. T. S. 
Reeves, and Elders Patton and Rush, on the site of present 
Pacific Hotel. On the 26th February, 1845, the town was 
incorporated, with Joseph Robidoux as first President of 
the Board of Trustees. In 1849 the town was filled with a 
busy population of emigrants arriving and departing for the 
gold fields of the then New Eldorado — California. The city 



10 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



was on the great highway across the plains, and profited greatly 
in the equipment and fitting out of trains which departed daily 
for the gold fields. In the beginning of 1851 the town 
contained about 4,000 people, and its inhabitants petitioned for 
and took upon themselves the dignity of a city. The first 
charter bears date February 22d, of that year, and is still in 
force, having been amended twenty times. Thomas Mills was 
the first Mayor. On the 22d February, 1859, the completion 
of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad (206 miles) — the first 
road to penetrate so far west, was celebrated. It was a great 
event in the history of the town, and gave it the first connection 
by rail with Eastern cities, and caused its population and 
business to increase with rapid strides. During the following 
year the Pony Express was started by the famous firm of 
Russell, Waddles & Majors, to quickly transmit a limited mail 
to San Francisco and the Pacific coast. The time consumed 
was fourteen days, and was regarded in those days as a great 
accomplishment ; and was truly so, when the difficulties and 
dangers of the journey are taken into consideration. Mark 
Twain in his " Roughing It," has drawn a graphic and 
truthful picture of the vicissitudes of a rider's life. The 
distance traveled was 2,000 miles. The rider used to start 
with flourish of trumpets from the Patee House, and dash off 
as though life depended upon his efforts, and his courser must 
have the speed of the winds. 

THE WAE. 

In 1861 the city became the scene of factious disturbances 
on the part of those who supported the cause of the secession 
of Missouri from the Union. 

THE WAR PERIOD, 

was, in consequence, a most gloomy one, and business became 
completely prostrated. During the early period of the war 
armed bands of predatory rebels entered the city and ransacked 
the stores, carrying away whatever was valuable or available 
for military purposes. The United States troops occupied the 
city, and Pospect Hill was strongly fortified and guns placed 
in position to command the river and every avenue of approach 



HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 11 



to the city. The city became the depot for the centralization 
and distribution of the troops, and citizens were debarred the 
privilege of trade or commerce. From a population in 1861 
of some 10,000 people, the city dwindled down to less than 
7,500 at the close of the war in 1865, and its days of progress 
and development seemed at an end. 

The close of the war with the consequent return of peace, 
brought back again prosperity and the onward march of event- 
ful and successful enterprise. Surrounded by great natural 
facilities, combining for its welfare and future greatness, the 
city could not be at a stand-still when the obstacles which 
stayed her progress were removed. The trade, which was hers 
by right, flowed back again into its accustomed channel, and 
the return of peace was but the return of uninterrupted pros- 
perity. 

THE PEOGEESS 

of the city from its early beginning up to the present time, is 
illustrated in its growth in population and in material wealth. 
In 1845 the town contained 600 souls, and the value of 
property was $40,000; in 1850, 3,460 souls and $583,016 
worth of property ; in 1860, 8,932 souls and $4,355,693 worth 
of property ; in 1870, 19,565 souls and $11,283,435 of prop- 
erty. It is estimated that at the present date the city contains 
not less than 25,000 people, and that estimate will come under 
rather than over the actual population. It seems probable 
that long before the half century predicted by the distinguished 
naturalist, she will have outgrown even the wildest vision of 
his prophesy. In her present state she is increasing rapidly, 
attracting new people and growing in material wealth. Her 
future, with new enterprises opening up and the country round 
about becoming more thickly populated with communities of 
producers and consumers, is most promising. She has but to 
reach out to gather the fruit within her reach. 

When Robidoux settled at this point, he was especially 
attracted by the richness and fertility of the soil, which he 
always predicted would be the chief source of attraction for 



12 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



settlers. He little dwelt upon the rapid growth of the great 
country beyond, which was then an unknown land, or imagined 
that an allurement would spring up which would cause people 
to come from all parts of the world and civilize the wilds of 
the far off country with earnest and energetic men. He little 
dreamed of the unquarried treasures of gold and silver that 
one day would set men to delving and digging and bringing 
forth untold riches. Yet all these events have served to 
people this city and make rich its inhabitants. 

THE NATURAL ADVANTAGES 

of St. Joseph have made it the point of distribution and supply 
to the country around. It lies in the centre of a cluster of 
cities — Kansas City, Leavenworth and Atchison on the south, 
and Nebraska City, Council Bluffs and Omaha on the north, 
with railroad facilities which bring them all within a few 
hours journey. Beyond, on the other side of the Missouri, are 
innumerable towns — the small cities — of thriving and pros- 
perous sections, whose merchants seek this point for supplies. 
Goods are shipped to points as far distant as Denver and into 
the Rocky Mountains. As fast as means are provided for the 
prompt and safe transportation of goods the trade of a section 
is solicited. Now that the completion of the Atchison, Topeka 
& Santa Fe Railroad has opened up a new and valuable 
section of country, the merchants of St. Joseph are gaining 
the patronage of its people, who realize the value of a market 
which can supply all the various articles of merchandise com- 
monly in demand. 

THE COUNTRY TRIBUTARY TO ST. JOSEPH 

is a section in Missouri within a radius of from seventy-five to 
one hundred miles; north into Iowa along the line of the 
B. & M. Railroad; west and northwest into Nebraska, the 
territories of Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Utah; 
southwest into Kansas and, latterly, the territory of New 
Mexico, which is becoming a section opening up an important 
trade. With the increase of population and the building up 



HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 13 



of towns, and the necessary supply of a better means of com- 
munication so that freights will be cheapened and transportation 
quickened, the commercial transactions of the country naturally 
seeking St. Joseph will grow to an enormous extent, and the 
merchants of the city, with their accustomed sagacity, will be 
ready to meet and supply all demands upon their ample stocks 
of merchandise. 

THE HISTORY OF RAILROADS, 

is the history of modern development. The lumbering stage 
coach and the slow moving freight wagon are tolerated no 
longer. The first demand after a community has got beyond 
its first period of development is for rapid means of locomotion. 
Modern progress means a first class railroad with first class 
equipments; and the youth growing into manhood wonders 
how his grandfather could have lived in the then slow-moving 
world. St. Joseph was the first town so far west to be reached 
by a railroad, and early enjoyed the immense advantages arising 
from an Eastern rail connection. On the 22d February,. 1859, 
the completion of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was 
celebrated with great rejoicings. It runs in nearly a straight 
line across the State from Hannibal on the Mississippi river to 
St. Joseph on the Missouri, 206 miles. It enjoyed for many 
years the distinction of being the pioneer line to the Great 
West, and transported the many thousands who disembarked 
at St. Joseph to take the overland route across the plains from 
Elwood in Kansas, to Pike's Peak and California. It therefore 
enjoys the reputation of being the best known road in the State 
of Missouri. 

In July, 1868, the St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad 
was completed to Council Bluffs in Iowa, 130 miles, making 
connection with the Union Pacific at Omaha, Neb. 

In the winter of 1868-9 the Missouri Valley Railroad, 
being a consolidation of the Atchison & St. Joseph, the Weston 
& Atchison and the Missouri Valley Railroads, was finished 
to Kansas City, giving the city its first important connection 
with St. Louis. In February, 1870, the Missouri Valley 



14 HISTOKY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



Railroad was consolidated with the St. Joseph & Council 
Bluffs Railroad under the name and title of the Kansas City, 
St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad, and in February, 1871, 
the " Yalley " branch was extended up the Nodaway valley 
to Hopkins, a point on the Iowa State line, forming in 
December of the same year a connection with the Burlington 
& Missouri River Railroad, thus opening an important new 
route to Chicago and the East. The Kansas City, St. Joseph 
& Council Bluffs Railroad bids fair to be the most popular 
North and South line in the West. It courses the right bank 
of the Missouri for a distance of 200 miles, making direct con- 
nections with Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison, St. Joseph, 
Forest City, Nebraska City, Plattsmouth, Council Bluffs and 
Omaha. In its Nodaway valley branch, it runs through an 
agricultural section of country unsurpassed in fertility and 
productiveness, and containing towns that are growing rapidly. 

In 1870 the St. Louis & St. Joseph Railroad was completed 
76 miles, to the Richmond and Lexington Junction on the 
North Missouri Railroad, making a second rail connection 
with St. Louis. This is an important road to St. Joseph, 
making the shortest and most direct route to the Queen City 
of the Mississippi Valley. Its completon was the means of 
greatly cheapening fuel in the opening up of the extensive 
coal fields of Ray County. It also greatly lessened the rates 
of transportation of merchandise between the two cities. 

The St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad, to run across 
the State of Kansas to Fort Kearney, in Nebraska, 265 miles, 
was commenced in 1859. It now is completed as far as 
Hastings, 238 miles, and is destined to be an important 
Western route. At Troy Junction it connects with the 
Atchison & Nebraska Railroad for Lincoln and points in 
Nebraska. 

The new lines under projection or construction are the 
Burlington & Southwestern, to run from Burlington, Iowa, to 
this city. This has been completed and equipped for 125 
miles from the former city. The St. Joseph, Kansas & Texas, 
for the construction of which a company has but recently been 



THE GREAT THROUGH PASSENGER ROUTE, 
FROM ST. JOSEPH, 

IS VIA THE OLD RELIABLE 

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between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, over IRON BRIDGES, 
with Pullman Sleeping Palaces and Palace Day Coaches to QUINCY, 
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Connecting at QUINCT UNION DEPOT with Chicago, Burlington 
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Passenger Lines, 

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AFFORDS UNEQUALLED ADVANTAGES IN 

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it U£l (JitiW JTW X ijO 1 fore, when going East, all who are posted buy 
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or at Hannibal & St. Joseph Depot, St. Joseph, VIA QUINCY, over the 
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Ask for Tickets VIA QUINCY and Hannibal & St. Joseph Short 
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Gen'l Ticket Agent. Gen' I Sup't. 



16 HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



organized, will, if the wishes of its projectors are realized, be 
of vast practical benefit to this city, opening up a new section 
in Southwestern Kansas hitherto inaccessible to its merchants. 
It is proposed to carry it south into Texas and obtain some of 
the cattle trade which has assumed such immense proportions, 
and is so important and much sought for, part of the carrying 
trade of western roads. 

The great advantages which the several roads above 
enumerated give to this city, show themselves in the prosperity 
of its whole business. The means for shipment of goods to every 
point are unsurpassed. Yet, in the future, as there are bound 
to be new avenues of trade and commerce, so there are bound 
to be new railway facilities to meet the necessities thus created. 
It is easy to predict, and one man's ipse dixit has no more force 
than a mere individual opinion unless it reflects the sentiment 
of a community or of influential citizens ; bat a prophesy is 
ventured that St. Joseph will, if her citizens are sagacious 
enough to take advantage of opportunities which will from 
time to time arise, have more and better railroad facilities than 
any western city of the same size, and will, in consequence, 
enjoy a trade which no rival, however earnest and zealous, 
can take away from her. 

THE MISSOURI EIVER BRIDGE. 

Closely connected with the future, and having an important 
influence on the railway system of St. Joseph, is the work now 
under completion across the river at this point. The St. Joseph 
Bridge Building Company was organized and incorporated in 
January, 1871. The city by an ordinance passed May 23d, 
1871, voted to the capital stock of said Company the sum of 
five hundred thousand dollars, in twenty year ten per-cent. 
bonds, and in 1872 the Company issued first mortgage bonds 
to the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars. These 
amounts constitute the entire fund with which the bridge has 
been built, with the exception of a few thousand dollars raised 
for defraying the expense attending the preliminary survey. 
Col. E. D. Mason, who enjoys the reputation of a most success- 



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18 HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



ful Engineer, was employed to make the necessary surveys as 
to the best point for locating the bridge and to estimate the 
cost. Under his direction it was demonstrated that rock 
bottom could be found at an average depth of forty-five feet/ 
and on the 15th March he made his report, with accompanying 
plans, recommending the present site and estimating the cost 
of the bridge at $715,000. 

On the 10th June the contract for building the bridge was 
let to the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works, of Detroit, Michigan, 
for $710,000. This contract includes " both the superstructure 
and substructure of said bridge, between and including the 
abutments on both sides of said river/ 7 to be a combined rail- 
road and wagon bridge, and to be built of iron, resting on 
stone piers. The contract further provides that the bridge 
shall have six piers, with three fixed spans, each three hundred 
feet in length, a draw span 363 feet in length, and a shore span 
80 feet in length. On each side of the bridge there will be a 
roadway for wagons, and a sidewalk 4 feet wide, outside the 
trusses. On November 5th, pier six was begun and was com- 
pleted January 2d, 1872. Pier five was commenced December 
28th, and landed on bed rock February 2. Pier four was 
commenced February 17th, and completed March 13th. The 
upper draw rest was commenced April 27th and reached bed 
rock May 21st. Pier two was commenced July 16th and 
finished November 6th, the long delay being caused by the 
three months high water, usually lasting from 15 to 20 days. 
Pier three was commenced December 2d, and finished January 
17th. Pier one was commenced February 2d, and will be 
finished by the last of March, 1873. The substructure, there- 
tore, may be said to be completed. W ork upon the super- 
structure is finished to the extent of two spans on the west end 
of the bridge, and the iron work being here for the remaining 
spans, sixty days after the ice has left the river will witness 
the full completion of the work ready for the engine or wagon. 

The officers of the Company are as follows : Willard P. 
Hall, President ; Jeff. Chandler, Vice President ; Eobert 




SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI. 



CAPITAL, $100,000 OO, 

With Double Liabilities, 



T. J. CHEW, Jr., President. JACOB HAUCK, Vice President. 
I. G. KAPPNER, Cashier. 



SEVEN PER CENT. PER ANNUM Paid on all amounts 
Placed in Sayings Department. 

Interest begins on the first of eaeJi month. 



DIRECTORS.-JOHN FINGER, JOSEPH KUECHLE, W. M. WYETH, J. F. 

BARNARD, I. G. KAPPNER, T. J. CHEW, Jr., JACOB 
HAUCK, F. W. SMITH, WINSLOW JUDSON. 



Transacts also, a General Banking Business, Buys and Sells Eastern 
Exchange and Drafts on Europe. 



20 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



Gunn, Secretary ; G. H. Koch, Treasurer ; J. L. Bittinger, 
Auditor; who, with James McCord, Milton Tootle, W. M. 
Wyeth, E. D. Mason, I. G. Kappner, K. L. McDonald, J. D. 
McNeely,W. B. Johnson, form the Board of thirteen Directors. 

NAVIGATION 

of the Missouri is at present in somewhat of a problematical 
state. The steamers that formerly did so extensive a carrying 
trade from St. Louis to Fort Benton, in Montana, a distance 
of 2,000 miles, or to the many important towns or cities inter- 
mediate, have had their places usurped by the more rapid 
railroads which run on either side of the river. There are 
some local lines that, in time of navigation, run to carry the 
immense stocks of corn and wheat to points of trans-shipment, 
but they run at the disadvantage of great competition and 
consequent low freights. The question as to the most practical 
way of utilizing our great water system, is one occupying the 
time and thoughtful attention of the most eminent and skillful 
engineers of our country. There are difficulties to overcome 
which have interfered with successful navigation, but may not 
always do so. The obstructions in the river of snags which at 
every freshet are washed down from some embankment, and 
change their location at every high water season, like hidden 
and dangerous rocks in mid ocean, are dangerous in the 
extreme, and the shifting nature of the river channel which 
to-day may be here, to-morrow there. As the controllable 
nature of the stream seems to some extent to have been suc- 
cessfully demonstrated by the dykes erected at this point by the 
Bridge Company to bring the channel to its former course close 
by the city, it seems possible that in the great future, when 
necessity demands the effort, through the settling up of the 
country along its banks, that the u Big Muddy " will be got 
under control and made subservient to the interests of the 
valley it waters. 

It is certain that some cheap way of transporting the grain 
raised by our agriculturists to the seaport of the West, New 




State National Bane, 

Corner Fourth and Felix Streets, 

Saint Joseph., Mo. 



A. M. SAXTON, President. C. B. PRANGS, Cashier. 



This old established Bank does a General 
Discount and Deposit Business. 



EXCHANGE on all principal points in the UNITED 
STATES and EUROPE, bought and sold. 

ACCOUNTS from Merchants and Bankers through- 
out the Country solicited. 

INTEREST paid on time deposits and Bankers 9 
balances. 

COLLECTIONS made and remitted for on day of 
payment. 

BONDS of all kinds bought and sold. 
GOLD AND SILVER Bought and Sold. 



22 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



Orleans, must be devised. It has been demonstrated that 
railroads cannot afford to carry East at much less than the 
cost of two bushels of corn for one, and that great sacrifice has 
caused the farmers to store that grain, feeding it out to their 
cattle, as far as possible, and using the rest for fuel. The 
amount of the grain produced in this country will always be 
greater than the consumption, and the surplus must, someway, 
find a market in the East or the Old World. The solution of 
this commmercial question will advance the interests of the 
West beyond all calculation, and make her more populous than 
Egypt in her palmy days, when, according to the father of 
history, she had twenty thousand cities, and trade flowed to 
her from all the known world. 

THE MANUFACTURING INTERESTS 

of the City have gained a permanent position which 
reflects great credit upon the City of St. Joseph. During the 
past year the facilities in this direction have increased over 
thirty per cent. The new industries which have been added 
to its business life bid fair to become large and prosperous 
enterprises — a source of pride to the citizens. This increase 
has undoubtedly been brought about by the interest excited by 
the discussion of questions concerning manufactures during 
the past year. It is the constant falling of the water which 
wears away the stone, and the constant agitation of the subject 
of industrial enterprises will lead to their permanent establish- 
ment. Nothing is started in the West on a business footing, 
but grows. It is in the nature of things, here, that every 
enterprise of the manufacturing kind, managed with careful 
attention, should succeed. The demand, the necessity is here, 
and success is only dependent upon the wants of the 
community being fully met. The amount of business capital 
invested in our city in the various manufacturing 
establishments is upward of $400,000. 

The first establishment of the kind erected here was a small 
frame flouring mill to supply the wants of the settlers in 1844, 



BUCHANAN BANK, 

Fourth. & Edmond Sts. 9 




CAPITAL, - - $300,000. 



Possessing ample facilities, offers the services of the 
Bank as a 

S^FE I > I : T* O S I r X" O IS Y 

TO 

Merchants, Farmers and Traders. 



GEO. T. HOAGLAND. 

JNO. WILLIAMS, Cash'r. 



24 



HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



the motive power of which was supplied by water from the 
Black Snake creek. Now, there are upwards of one hundred 
manufactories of various kinds, large and small, that furnish 
employment to 1000 mechanics. The average wages paid are 
about |2.50 per day. From fifty to sixty bricklayers are 
constantly employed, and over thirty-five stone masons. The 
Carpenters' Union numbers over 60, but there are over 2)0 
carpenters in the city, constantly at work. Of shoemakerV 
there are upwards of 200, who have here a residence. Of 
painters, there are 150, with eight " boss " painters. The , 
number of industrial establishments may be enumerated as 
follows : 

The furniture factory of Louis Hax, commenced in 1863, 
now employs 100 men, turning out furniture of various kinds, 
which is shipped as far west as Denver : the starch factory of 
the St. Joseph Starch Company, being a branch of the 
Madison, Ind., factory, commenced in 1872, employs 80 
hands, and is shipping a greater part of its product to 
Germany ; the woolen mill of George Buell & Co., employs 
45 hands, having commenced business in 1865 ; the firm of 
W. M. Wyeth & Co. who, in connection with their hardware 
business, are dealers in saddles, harnesses and collars, have a 
manufactory of the same, employing 52 men hands ; the 
foundries of Burnside, Crowther & Co. and Ambrose, Ford & 
Co. employ — the former 25, the latter 23 men, and are capable 
of turning out machine work of various kinds of a first-class 
make ; J. P. Fink, boot and shoe manufacturer, employs 20 
hands, and manufactures especially for the mountain trade ; 
Pfeiffer & Co., stone cutters, employ 60 hands, using Carrol 
County stone. They have been furnishing cut stone largely for 
the Chicago market ; S. D. King & Co., cracker and spice 
mills, employ 30 hands and send their products to all parts of 
the western country ; John DeClue & Co., planing mills, and 
Jas. P. Hamilton, saw mills, employ from 12 to 40 hands ; the 
steam flouring mills of Kercheval & Co., Fairclough & Co., 
Davis & Co. and Hauck & Bro. turn out an immense quantity 
of first-class flour, and employ from 10 to 20 hands each ; 



BALDWIN & CO., 

Wholesale and Retail 

JEWELERS, 

No. 95 Felix Street, Cor. Fourth, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



Have the largest and most complete Stock of 

WATCHES, 

DIAMONDS, 

JEWELRY, 

CLOCKS, 

SILVER AND SILVER-PLATED WARE, 

BRONZES, ETC., ETC. 
I1ST the: WEST. 

ALL GOODS WARRANTED 

AS REPRESENTED AND SOLD AT AS 

LOW ZEniG-TTIEtlES 

AS ANY ESTABLISHMENT IN THE COUNTRY. 

Our Repairing and Manufacturing Department are under 
experienced and competent men, and no pains will be spared 
to give entire satisfaction to our patrons. 



26 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 

Chas. H. Shultz and Bard & Co., manufacturers of tinware, 
iron cornices, &c, employ from 15 to 30 men. Their work 
goes to every city and town west of St. Joseph. There are 
thirteen wagon making establishments in the city, who in the 
aggregate employ a large number of hands and find here a 
ready market for the sale of their manufactures. This is 
independent of foreign manufacturers who have agents here to 
sell their products — the Studebaker, the Bain, the Newton and 
the Harrison and the Jackson, Mich., wagons being largely 
sold in this market. S. Adler & Co., distillers, do a large 
business in re-distilling. In 1872 they re-distilled 4,000 
barrels of high wines. Shehan & Co. manufactured 189,897 
gallons of distilled spirits. 

The city is well represented in the smaller manufactories 
of the mechanic or artisan, which tho ? now humble in their 
beginnings may grow to thrifty enterprises, reflecting credit 
upon the originators, who, "while others sleep, are toiling 
upward in the night. " 

These are the men who make a city, whose early struggles 
give them the experience which comes of earnest and honest 
toil, and enables them to gather the advantages which are sure 
to come sooner or later in a man's career. 

The manufacturing interests of the City of St. Joseph are 
represented by the following industrial establishments, viz. : 
Two ale and soda factories, two axe handle manufactories, 
five breweries, three boiler makers, three blank book 
manufactories, three boot and shoe manufactories, one broom 
factory, three candy manufactories, five cigar and one distillery 
manufactory, two foundries, four furniture factories, one 
fanning mill factory, four flouring mills, one paper box factory, 
two plough manufactories, one re-distillery, one pottery, one 
railroad repair shop, one soap factory, one starch factory, two 
saddle, harness and collar manufactories, one trunk and valise 
factory, twelve wagon factories and five vinegar factories. 

ST. JOSEPH AS A PORK PACKING POINT. 

The geographical position which this city occupies as a 
centre of a large agricultural section, whose products naturally 



J. C. OGDEN. A. L. KERR. 

J. C. OGDEN & CO~, 

(SUCCESSORS TO V. B. BUCK.) 



New and Exclusive 
WHOLE^^LLE HOUSE 

HATS AND CAPS, 

Ladies' Trimmed Hats & Straw Goods, 

NO. 11 NORTH THIRD STREET, 

SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI' 



Having ample facilities, we keep one of the LARGEST STOCKS in 
the West, and offer as GREAT INDUCEMENTS as any other House East 
or West. In fact, we are determined to make it the interest of every 
Retailer, at all convenient to St. Joseph, 

TO ZE3TT3T OP ITS. 
A Call Solicited, and Orders Promptly Attended to. 

T C\ OfrTnTTNT ) Formerly of the Firms of 

A T TTTPT2T* ' ? J ' KlNNEY & Co., and 
A. Jj. ±LJ!jXixi 9 j Smith, Kerr & Ogden. 



l^^Referring to the above, I would inform the Trade that 1 have 
transferred my Stock of HATS, CAPS, FURS AND STRAW 
GOODS to the above Firm, and would solicit for them the favorable 
patronage heretofore conferred upon me. 

VICTOR B. BUCK. 



28 HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



seek this point for a market, brings the city into great 
prominence as an advantageous point for pork packing. The 
tendency of this trade is Westward, where hogs can be got 
cheaply and handled at little expense. Cincinnati, which for 
many years enjoyed the right to be called " Porkopolis," 
because of the long time she led the van in hog products, has 
been outstripped by Chicago, who packs two hogs to her one, 
and now St. Louis is rapidly gaining on her Eastern rival. 
St. Joseph has been growing as a packing point until now she 
has become the sixth in importance, and she is bound to 
maintain the ascendency, from the fact that she is surrounded 
by a section of country that produces hogs in marvellous 
abundance, that seek a market here. Kansas City which is 
growing to be a great packing point, depends upon this section 
for material. The additional cost of transportation to that 
city is a telling advantage in favor of St. Joseph packers. 
Barrels, fuel and labor are obtained as cheap here as at any 
point in the West. The expense of transportation East, of 
hog products, is within two or three cents as cheap as from 
Chicago, the competition of rival lines making an exceedingly 
low rate of freight. The contracts for the past season have 
been 70c per one hundred pounds. There are three packing 
houses in St. Joseph. The total number of hogs packed 
during the season of 1872-3 was 93,000. 

THE BANKING FACILITIES 

of St. Joseph are unequalled by any city west of Chicago or 
St. Louis, and one great cause of the prosperity of its merchants 
has undoubtedly been owing to the superior banking facilities 
afforded. In western towns money has always commanded a 
high price, owing to its scarcity ; and the high rate of interest 
it has brought has worked disadvantageously to western 
interests. But St. Joseph, owing to the large amount spent 
here in the early days of the gold excitement, has never 
undergone the experience of other towns, and has always been 




STARCH COMPANY 



ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



PU EE. UXCHEMICALLED 



STARCH. 



UNORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 



30 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



able to rely upon her own pecuniary resources. There is little 
or no foreign capital in the city, and the property of the city is 
held, whether in real estate, merchandise or money, by her own 
citizens. The ordinary discount of ten per cent, is the rate 
commonly charged by the banks to first-class customers. 

The city has six banking houses, to which will be shortly 
added a seventh, the stock for which is now being subscribed. 
The business of these banks is shown in brief as follows 
Deposits received, $35,000,000 ; notes discounted, $5,500,000; 
exchange issued, $15,000,000. This comprises the aggregate 
of transactions for 1872, and will enable one to form a just 
conception of the commercial and business importance of St. 
Joseph. 

BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS. 

The general aims and objects of associations of the 
character indicated by the above, are beneficial to a 
community. They afford means to their patrons to obtain 
money on a long credit, to be repaid in instalments so gradual 
and in such small amounts as not to seem burdensome. This 
enables the humble mechanic or tradesman to provide a home 
for himself, and to gain all the reciprocal advantage of the 
sum borrowed to accomplish this object. Their effect has been 
to multiply houses and to enrich the community by the example 
of saving which they inculcate. Well managed, they 
cannot fail to be prosperous and successful and give 
all their members through these savings an easy 
way to discharge encumbrances and to build houses. 
There are four building companies in this city, organized 
under the general law of the State, all of which have 
become established on good and sound footing, composed of 
the best business men of the city. As to their management, 
they have commanded the confidence of the community, and 
are patronized by all classes from the wealthy man, who can 
pay his instalment of one thousand dollars per month, to the 
poor mechanic or laborer, who is only able to pay his one dollar 
per week. 



JOHN DONOVAN, A. M. SAXTON, 

Attorney at Law. Prest. State National Bank. 

DONOVAN & SAXTON, 

REAL ESTATE AGENTS, 

St. J osepli, Missouri, 

Office on Fifth Street, Between Felix and Francis 



^_We are prepared to sell to the Capitalist CHEAP PROPERTY as 
an investment. We can sell to those desiring homes very nice improved 
residences in the city, or beautiful places in the suburbs of the city ; to the 
Farmer, well improved farms, and to the Speculator, cheap prairie lands in 

MISSOURI AND KANSAS. 



Below is a list of some of the property ^we 



HAVE FOR SALE: 

Lands in Atchison, Holt, Nodaway, Gentry, DeKalb, 
Harrison and Buchanan Counties, Missouri and Kansas. 

Well improved and desirable farms in Buchanan and 
Andrew counties. 

Handsome and desirable residences in the city. 

Comfortable and cheap homes in the city. 

Desirable building lots in all parts of the city and at all 
prices. 

Valuable business houses. 

Country homes, of from three to forty acres, near to and 
some adjoining city limits. 

Five, ten amd twenty acre lots near the city. 
Improved farms near Troy and Wathena, Kansas. 
Residences, cheap and desirable, in Wathena. 
Large lots in this city, capable of dividing into smaller lots, 
GOOD HXTVESTMEKTTS. 



32 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH, 



The St. Joseph Improvement and Manufacturers' Aid 
Association was organized in November, 1871, for " the 
purpose of promoting the public interests of the city, and 
developing all legitimate enterprises tending to the advance- 
ment of her prosperity and welfare." It is composed of the 
leading citizens of the city, who are actuated by a spirit of 
devotion to home interests, and who are ever ready to lend 
their pecuniary aid to any project of manufactures or industrial 
improvement which shall benefit the city. It invites, through 
circulars and publications forwarded where they are most 
likely to attract notice, the attention of manufacturers and 
others looking West for a business location to the advantages 
which St. Joseph offers, and the facilities which she has now 
and will have in the future for trade. It holds forth every 
proper inducement to manufacturers to locate here by 
furnishing favorable locations for business sites, and protecting 
and advancing their interests after they have established them- 
selves. The success that has thus far been met with has been most 
encouraging, and one prominent result of the efforts of this 
Association has been the locating of a large starch factory with 
a capital of $80,000, which consumes one thousand bushels of 
corn per day. The officers of the Association are T. J. Chew, 
Jr., President ; J. M. Varnum, Secretary ; R. L. McDonald, 
Treasurer ; Milton Tootle, E. E. Turner, W. M. Wyeth, D. 
M. Steele, M. M. Claggett, George Buell, J. H. R. Cundiff, J. 
W. Bailey and S. Adler, Directors. 

TRADE. 

The exclusively wholesale houses in St. Joseph are 
thus enumerated : 6 Boots and Shoes ; 3 Clothing ; 3 
Confectioners ; 4 Druggists' supplies ; 4 Dry Goods ; 1 
Furniture ; 5 Grocers ; "4 Hardware ; 4 Hats, Caps and Furs 
and 5 Notions. The retail houses number as follows : 6 
Agricultural Implements ; 6 Books and Stationery ; 18 Boots 
and Shoes; 2 Carpet ; 15 Cigars and Tobacco ; 10 Clothing 
and Gents' Furnishing Goods; 6 Commission; 30 Confection- 



DAILY AND WEEKLY 

ST. JOSEPH HERALD ! 



Daily, per annum §9 00 

Or, by mail, per month 75 

Delivered by Carries, per month 1 00 

Weekly, per annum 1 50 



THE HERALD IS THE OLDEST AND LARGEST PAPEE 

IN" 

NORTHWEST MISSOURI. 



HE WEEKLY HERALD 

Is the Cheapest Paper in the State. 



A Faithful Exponent of the Spirit and Interests of the 
GREAT NORTH WEST. 



A REPUBLICAN PAPER, 

True to Liberty, Loyalty, Humanity and the Spirit of Progress. Sparing 
neither effort nor expense to obtain and publish the Latest News 
from all parts of the World, by Telegraph and otherwise. 

Doth the Daily and Weekly give Telegraphic Dispatches and Correspondence 
from most of the News Centres in the United States. 

ADDRESS, 

WILKINSON & BITTINGER, 

Publishers, St. Joseph, Mo. 



3 



34 HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



eries and Fruits ; 5 Hardware ; 15 Druggists ; 26 Dry Goods ; 
2 Fancy Goods and Toys ; 4 Fancy Groceries ; 4 Florists ; 7 
Furniture; 115 Groceries and Provisions; 2 Gunsmiths; 6 
Hair Work ; 4 Hats, Caps and Furs ; 2 Horticultural 
Implements ; 8 Lumber Yards ; 4 Marble Yards ; 30 Meat 
Markets ; 10 Millinery and Straw Goods ; 2 Musical 
Merchandise ; 10 Retail Notions ; 6 Queensware, China and 
Glassware ; 12 Stoves and Tinware ; 8 Watches, Clocks and 
Jewelry. 

THE PKOFESSIONS 

are thus represented : 2 Abstract of Title ; 4 Architects ; 44 
Attorneys-at-Law ; 7 Civil Engineers and Surveyors ; 5 
Dentists ; 7 Music Teachers ; 3 Oculists ; 38 Physicians ; 3 
Portrait Painters. 

THE ARTISANS 

are thus numbered : 3 Boiler Makers ; 32 Blacksmiths ; 38 
Boot and Shoemakers; 5 Brass Workers ; 11 Bridge Builders ; 
7 Cabinet Makers ; 22 Carpenters and Builders ; 3 Coopers ; 
17 Dress and Cloak Makers ; 2 Engravers and Designers ; 2 
Gas and Steam Fitters ; 2 Gunsmiths ; 5 Machinists ; 9 
Painters ; 7 Photographers ; 1 Pottery ; 8 Tailors ; 1 Wire 
Worker. 

AGENCIES. 

2 Coal ; 4 Collection , 3 Express Co's.; 20 Insurance ; 2 
Mercantile ; 4 Railroad ; 11 Real Estate ; 8 Sewing Machine ; 
2 Transportation. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

Daily Papers viz: Gazette and Evening Commercial, 
Democratic ; Herald and Volksblatt, Republican. 6 Weekly 
Papers, viz: Gazette, Herald, Volksblatt, Commercial, 
Standard and Democratic Reflector. 

ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS. 

3 Academies, viz: Academy of the Sacred Heart ; St. 
Joseph College ; Young Ladies' Institute ; 6 Private Schools ; 
11 Public Schools, including High School. 



C HOTZ. J. G. KT7SSELL. 

HOTZ & RUSSELL, 

(Successors to EDWARDS & SYMMONS.) 

Dealers in DIAMONDS, CAMEOS, 

WATCHES, CORALS, 
CHAINS, CLOCKS, 
JEWELRY, SILVER 

AND 

Silver Plated Wares, 

BRONZES AND STATUARY, TABLE 
CUTLERY, SPECTACLES, GOLD 
AND SILVER FRAMES, FINE 

JEWELRY, 

A. SPECIALTY. 

We are Selling our Goods as Low as any House in the West 



And all 



GOODS TT A E E AN T E D 

AS REPRESENTED. 

HOTZ <& RUSSELL, 

73 Felix Street, Between 3d and 4th, 

SAINT JQSIPH, - MISSQ^HI. 



Particular Attention paid to Manufacturing and Kepairing 
Watches and Jewelry, 



36 



HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



CHUECHES. 

3 Baptist ; 3 Catholic ; 1 Christian ; 1 Congregational : 1 
Hebrew ; 5 Methodist Episcopal ; 3 Presbyterian ; 1 Protestant 
Episcopal ; 1 Protestant Evangelical. 

LIBEAEIES AND EEADING EOOM. 

St. Joseph Law Library ; St. Joseph Public School 
Library ; Catholic Library ; German Circulating Library ; St. 
Joseph Beading Boom Association. 

MASONIC LODGES AND SOCIETIES. 

Charity Lodge ; Zeredatha Lodge ; St. Joseph Lodge ; 
St. Joseph Royal Arch Chapter ; St. Joseph Council ; Hugh 
De Pay en Commandery ; Order of Odd Fellows ; Enterprise ; 
Eclipse ; Humbolt ; King Hill ; St. Joseph Encampment ; 
Hesperian Encampment ; Knights of Pythias ; I. O. B'Nai 
Brith ; Benevolent Societies ; St. Andrew's ; St. George ; 
St. Patrick ; Hibernian ; Deutsche Huelp Gesellschaft ; 
St. Joseph Catholic Union. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

2 Auctioneers ; 10 Bakers ; 2 String Bands ; 17 Barbers ; 

2 Bath Booms ; 3 Billiard Halls ; 56 Boarding Houses ; 
5 Breweries ; 6 Brick Yards ; 3 Conveyancers ; 3 Drain and 
Sewer Pipe ; 15 Feed and Sale Stables ; 4 Florists ; 7 Grain 
Dealers ; 3 Hides and Skins ; 2 Horticultural Implements ; 
20 Hotels j 2 Laundries ; 3 Leather and Findings ; 3 
Lightning Bods ; 8 Lumber Yards ; 4 Marble Yards ; 7 News 
Depots ; 35 Notaries Public ; 3 Nurseries ; 8 Paper Hangers ; 

3 Plasterers ; 6 Printers ; 2 Bailroad Contractors ; 5 Bectifiers ; 
12 Bestaurants ; 90 Saloons ; 2 Stage Lines ; 2 Tanners ; 6 
Upholsterers ; 2 Veterniary Surgeons. 



BAILEY, KAY <fc CO., 

JOBBERS 

Fancy Dry Goods 

NOTIONS, 

.. Cj 




PREPARED TO 



Offer Extra Inducements to their Customers. 
CALL. 



\ 



38 HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



BUSINESS OF ST. JOSEPH FOE 1872. 

The reports of sales for the past year, made up with all the 
accuracy possible in making such estimates, show an increase 
over 1871, of upwards of $3,000,000. The following table is 
in general a reliable statement of sales made by respective 



houses : 

Boots and Shoes $1,600,000 

Books and Stationery 290,000 

Building Material 160,000 

Clothing 530,000 

Cigars and Tobacco 150,000 

Dry Goods 3,600,000 

Drugs 925,000 

Furniture 230,000 

Fancy Dry Goods 250 000 

Groceries 4,800,000 

Hats and Caps 250,000 

Hardware 725,000 

Jewelry 180,000 

Leather and Findings 270,000 

Lumber 1,000,000 

Musical Instruments 150,000 

Millinery Goods 140,000 

Queensware 275,000 

Stoves and Tinware 325,000 

Saddlery and Harness 400,000 

Total $18,405,000 



COMMEECIAL EATINGS. 

The following table was compiled from the Commercial Register 
of the United States and Ganadas" for 1873, issued by Messrs. 
McKillop, Sprague & Co., of New York, and the ratings, as 
compared, were made by reporters who reside, and are com- 
mercially interested, in these cities, respectively : 



Class A represents capital of $500,000 and over. 

" 1 " " 300,000 

" 1U " " 200,000 

" 2 " " 100,000 

" 2% " " 75,000 

" 3 " " , 50,000 

" BU " • " 30,000 

" 4 « " 20,000 

" 43^ " " 10,000 



WESTHEIMEU BROTHERS, 

ATHOLESALE 

LIQUOR DEALERS, 



JVO. 19 SECOND STREET. SI. JOSEPH. 310. 




Fountain Run. Beevey Valley, Old Paris Bourbon. 
Golden Crown, Pennsylvania Rye. Cedar 
Run, Los Angelos. California Wines, 
as well as Port, Sherry, Rhine and 
Native Wines, arid all the 

CELEBRATED EE ST UCE T BOZEBOXS. 

\atire American Stomach Bitters. 

They also have a full Stock of CHOICE CIGARS. Orders 
promptly filled. 



LOOS MAX. 

MANUFACTURER OF 

FURNITURE, 

And Dealer in 

CARPETS. 

A large Stock of which is constantly kept on hand. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 



NOS, 10 & 12 SECOND ST„ AND NO, 13 THIRD ST. 

FACTORY-Corner Angelique and 7th Streets. 

ST. JOSEPH. MO. 



40 HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 

























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INDUCEMENTS TO CAPITAL AND IMMIGEATION. 

When the good Bishop Heber wrote the lines so often 
quoted, relating to our beloved land, " Westward the Star of 
Empire takes its way," no living prophesy could have 
foretold that they would come finally to be regarded as 
referring to a remoter west, where the savage Indian roamed at 
Will and the wild buffalo had his home. The centre of 
population, which during his time lay somewhere in the New 
England States, has gradually moved westward, until now it 
occupies a point somewhere in the State of Ohio ; and so 
rapidly is the Valley of the Mississippi and that of the 
Missouri filling up with colonies of emigrants, who either 
move here from the Atlantic Slope or come from the older 
civilizations of Europe, that the centre of population will 
shortly be located in the great State of Missouri. J. W. 
Foster, L. L. D., of Chicago, one of our greatest scientists, in 
his work on " The Mississippi Valley, its Geography, <&c, " 
regards it as absolutely certain that it will have over fifty 
millions of inhabitants before the year 1900. She already 
stands fifth in the grand galaxy of States, and when her 
agricultural and mineral wealth is fully developed she will 
occupy the proud position of being among the first and 
foremost of them all. Watered by two of the greatest rivers 
in the world, giving her a natural outlet to the sea, she is 
certain in the future to enjoy unrivalled facilities for 
transporting the products of her soil, which will go forth one 



L. N. MULLEN. G. W. BUCK. 

f Mm m® 1111 & ©®* f 

Storage, Hay, Grain and Produce 



COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 

WILL RECEIVE AND SELL 

Wheat, Rye, Barley, Corn, Oats, Baled Hay, Seeds, 

FLOUR, MEA.Ii, BACON, BEANS, BUTTER, EGGS, CHICKENS, 

feittw, |'f ttit| ? fiitlw, fufc f©4 jfc jfe 

OINT HEASOKTABIjE terms. 

JVo. 16 _Etas£ Market Square, St. Joseph, Mo. 

CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED AND PROMPT RETURNS WITH SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 

REFERENCES /—State National Bank, R. L. McDonald & Co., V. B. Buck 
& Co., Weil & Cahn, Turner, Frazer & Co., J. S. Lemon & Co., Pinger & Browne, 
Wm. M. Wyeth & Co. 

EEAL ESTATE ! 

Situated in all parts of the City, 

For Sale or Lease at 

LOWEST PRICES 

AND ON 

Several MAWUFAC TTJB.I2T C Sites 

Near the Railroads, xvhich I xvill lease for a long term, or 

DONATE TO ANY PARTY OR PARTIES 

WJio xvill Build First- Class 

FACTORIES or MACHINE SHOPS THEREON. 

EB3IOND, BETWEEN SIXTH & SEVENTH, 

ST. JOSEPH, - MISSOURI: 

POST OFFICE BOX, 407. F.W,SMITH. 



42 HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



day to enrich the world. An integral and most important 
part of Missouri is the " Platte Purchase/' which the eloquent 
Benton described so glowingly. 

Of this locality St. Joseph is the great depot. It is to the 
Northwest what St. Louis is to its section, — the centre where 
trade and commerce naturally concentrate. Situated on the 
east bank of the Missouri River at a point where she gains 
advantageous control over the trade of Kansas, Nebraska and 
the Territories, her advantages are not equalled by any city 
west of Chicago or St. Douis. Her water communication gives 
in its season superior advantages in the shipment of goods 
to the upper regions of the Missouri, her rail communication 
enables her to deliver goods at any point promptly and 
at little cost. With such facilities, and those that are 
projected in the future, with the important means afforded in 
crossing the Missouri by the bridge now nigh unto completion, 
the growth of the city to a population of over fifty thousand 
within the next decade is all assured. The opportunity for 
investment in trade is unequalled. The success of the 
merchants of the city is the best evidence of the fact that 
business has been profitable here. The day of small things 
for the city has passed away, and the large wholesale houses 
with extensive stocks of merchandise, now attract merchants 
who formerly supplied their shelves from Chicago or St. 
Louis. Every year has added to our list of mercantile houses 
— new firms who have generally been made up from junior 
members of older firms, who have found trade sufficiently 
promising to warrant the starting opposition houses. Our 
city has, through its abundant capital, accumulated the goods 
from all quarters, which are requisite to supply the demands of 
the merchants, manufacturers, miners and mechanics, who 
flock thither, on the best terms, and this pre-eminence is 
maintained by a constant struggle, which proves the ability to 
compete and the energy to accomplish on the part of our active 
and enterprising merchants. 

All the arguments generally put forth regarding induce- 
ments to immigration to the rich and fertile countries of the 



DAILY EVENING COMMERCIAL 

AN INDEPENDENT 

LIVE LOCAL NEWSPAPER, 

Devoted to the interests of the people. 

Terms of Subscription— One copy per month, by carrier, 75 cts. ; 
one copy per month, by mail, 50 cents. 



SUNDAY COMMERCIAL, 

; Containing the cream of the Daily, and a large amount of new local and 
spicy reading, is issued every Sunday morning. 
Terms of Subscription— One copy one year, by carrier, $2.00: 
one copy one year, by mail, $1.50. Great inducements offered to clubs. 



JOB PRINTINGr 

Of every description, neatly and expeditiously executed, at low rates. 
Office. TV est side of Second St., one door South of Francis. 

CHARLES C. SCOTT, Proprietor. 

COMMONWEALTH LIFE INS. CO. OF N. Y. 

NORTHWESTERN" DEPARTMENT. 

POTTER & DOLMAUT, Managers, St. Joseph, Mo. 

The most equitable features and liberal plans. 
Local and General Agents wanted for all the Western States. 

H-A.RB.IXTCTOXT <& POTTER, 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 

OFFICE ROOMS 

Nos. 6 & 7 Baldwin's Block, cor. 4th and Felix Streets. 

COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE. 

HARRINGTON, POTTER & DOLMAN, 

REAL ESTATE ASENTS AND CONVEYANCERS 

Rooms 6 & 7 Baldwin's Block, cor. 4th and Felix Streets. 



44 



HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



West, apply directly and forcibly to the region about St. 
Joseph and the city itself. The growth of the city without 
any fictitious excitement or undue efforts to attract attention, 
demonstrates the fact that it possesses a population who have 
gathered here mindful of the great advantages arising from its 
unrivalled position for trade and commerce. The influx of 
population has been great within the past seven years 
throughout the whole section of which the city is the centre. 
The beauty and healthfulness of the climate, the richness and 
fertility of the soil, producing abundantly in crops of the 
various cereals and of fruits ; the advantages of excellent 
schools and the cultivation arising therefrom ; the facilities of 
railroads have all served to attract people thither and to 
make them contented in their new homes. 

What the future has in store for our people, and what 
inducements will draw hither men and means, will be the 
continued operation of the same laws which have produced the 
results of to-day. Where capital can find numerative 
investments and safe returns, these men will gather and then 
a community will prosper. It has been shown that trade 
naturally is attracted to this city, and that our energetic 
merchants have hitherto and are to-day, reaping the rewards 
of well directed enterprise. And so it is and has been with 
the agriculturalist, whose prolific land has returned him 
tenfold for his toil, until he rejoices in the affluence which 
money brings. 

INSURANCE. 

The practice of insuring against losses by fire does not 
date any farther back than the close of the Middle Ages, 
when men began to associate together in business, and to form 
combinations for mercantile undertakings. It is supposed the 
earliest system was a mutual one, where merchants joined 
together, paying a percentage of their earnings into a common 
fund, out of which losses were paid. This finally grew into 
general adoption and practice, as the advantages showed 
themselves in the indemnification for losses, which saved the 



CONSTANT POIRIER 

GRAFE GROWER & MANUFACTURER OF 

NATIVE WINES 

And FRUIT DISTILLER. 

DEALS AND SELLS AT 

WHOLESALE &c BETAIL 

HIS PRODUCE AT HIS VINEVARD, 

IITIEII, DONIPHAN COUNTY, KANSAS. 

ALSO, HAS ESTABLISHED A DEPOT IN 

H^ITVT JOSEPH, MO. 

WHERE HE HAS A LARGE STOCK OP HIS OWN 
NATIVE WINE AND FRUIT BRANDY 
OF ALL KINDS. 

Orders Promptly Filled. 

SAMUEL I. SMITH & CO., 

{Successors to SHERER & SMITH,) 
Wholesale Dealers in 

OILS, GLASS, PAINTS 

AND PAINTERS 9 SUNDRIES, 

LIME, HAIR, CEMENT, 

SEWER PIPE 

BUILDING & ROOFING PAPER, PITCH,&c 

FOURTH STREET, BET. FELIX & EDMOXD, 

ST. JOSEPH, = MISSOURI. 

* As we make a specialty of the above Goods and hare 
ample facilities, we are prepared to meet any and all 
competition in our line. We would invite the trade to 
give ns a call, and a trial will 

GUARANTEE SATISFACTION IN EVERY CASE, 



46 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH, 



insured from great loss and frequently utter ruin. The growth 
of the business hds become such that now Insurance has become 
a distinct business by itself, with the same careful calculations 
of profits and losses as banking ; and new systems have been 
devised to meet the various conditions imposed on account of 
the peculiar nature of risks taken. Insurance is classed under 
three heads, Fire, Marine and Life, and the usages governing 
the same are separate and distinct from each other, each being 
an outgrowth of advancing civilization. Men first began to 
insure against losses by fire, as being the most destructive and 
most dangerous element. Then, as intercourse was had with 
other nations, and trade was promoted, companies were formed 
to insure against losses by water, through storms and ship- 
wreck. Finally, as communities grew larger and more popu- 
lous, men began to insure themselves for the benefit of their 
creditors, or their families. 

St. Joseph has three home organizations, the St. Joseph 
Fire and Marine, P. L. McLaughlin, President, J. A. Nicely, 
Secretary; the Merchants', D. M. Steele, President, A. Kil- 
patrice, Secretary; the Home, John Pinger, President, D. 
M. McDonald, Secretary. Of foreign companies, Fire, there 
are thirty-two; Fire and Marine, three; Life, fifteen and 
Accident, one. 

These are represented by able and energetic agents, who 
push the interests of their respective companies to the utmost, 
and with gratifying results. 

CITY PROGRESS— STREETS AND BUILDINGS. 

The contrast between St. Joseph of to-day and the Saint 
Joseph of seven years ago, is very striking. Since the close 
of the war, and the consequent return of peace and prosperity 
to the land, the city has increased vastly in population, and 
has added krgely to her buildings of a public and private 
character. The year of 1865-6 marked an era in the history 
of the city, which was the year of progress, especially as dur- 
ing the preceding years from 1860, no structures of any kind 



JOHN FINGER. JOSEPH S. BROWNE. 

PINGER & BROWNE, 

Importers and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 

QUEENSWARE 

GLASSWARE, 

FRENCHCHINA,SILVER-FUTEDEIOOSS^c 

No. 10 SOUTH THIRD STREET, 

St, Joseph, - Missouri. 

We have the largest and best assortment in 
our line,in the North West, and respect- 
fully solicit a call and examination of 
Goods and Prices. 

TURNER,, ERASER & CO., 

WHOLESALE 

GROCERS 

NOS. 7 AND 9 NORTH THIRD STREET, 

i™l ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

AGB1TTS FOB 

Sheehan's Pure Whiskies, 
Dupont's Powder and 

RIVEESIDE NAILS. 



48 HISTOKY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



were erected nor improvements made. During the year men- 
tioned $60,000 was appropriated by the Council and expended 
in the macadamizing of streets, which was the beginning of a 
series of improvements which has placed St. Joseph in the van 
of Western cities for good roadways. At the present time 
she has twenty-eight miles of paved streets, which is a strong 
point in favor of so young a city. The best buildings in the 
city have been erected since J 65, among which may be men- 
tioned the Pacific Hotel, one of the finest in the Western 
country ; the stores of Buck & Co., Lockwood & Co. and 
Lemon, Hosea & Co. ; the Tootle and McLaughlin building, 
the German Savings Bank, the Colhoun Bank building, the 
stores of Wyeth & Co. and Koch, Chew & Co., the stores of 
Weil & Kahn and Adler & Co., the States Savings Bank, &c. 
The Opera House was erected by Mr. Milton Tootle ; regarded 
by all as the finest theatre West of Chicago. The building 
was erected at a cost of $150,000, and is the finest in the city. 
The ground floor is fitted up with six fine large stores with 
plate glass windows, designed for the retail trade. The 
upper stories are for offices, the entrance to which is on Fifth 
street. The grand entrance to the auditorium is on Francis 
street, and has a width of sixteen feet. It is reached by an 
easy ascent of four short flight of stairs, which convey the 
spectator into an exceedingly handsome interior, fitted up with 
all the accessories of modern opera seats, elegant crystal 
chandelier and bracket lights, handsome galleries, artistic 
frescoes, and a proscenium, with its side boxes and drop cur- 
tains, that entrances one like a fairy scene. The auditorium 
is 66x69 feet, and 45 feet from pit to dome. The seating 
capacity is about 1,400, which will be large enough for any 
growth of the city for ten years to come. The stage is 40x 
60 feet, with a proscenium arch of 32 feet. It is most perfect 
in its appointments, being supplied with all the modern 
machinery and twelve setts of scenery. In the rear of the 
stage are the green room and dressing rooms — appartments 
furnished with all the conveniences and comforts of home life ; 
an attention to the well-being of theatrical performers scarcely 



W. M. "WYETH. R.H.JORDAN. E. R . McDONALD. 

W. HI. WYETH <£ CO. 

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF 

Hardware, Cutlery 

AND SADDLERY HARDWARE, 

Manufacturers of Harness, Sales, Collars, Bridles, Etc. 

Agents for *Henry Ikisson's Saws. 

NO. 6 SOUTH THIRD STREET, ST. JOSEPH. MO. 

S. ADDER. A. BURST. 

S. ADLER & CO. 

DISTILLERS 

J Wholesale Liquors and Cigars, \ 

SAINT JOSEPH, MO. 

A. NAVE. J. McCORD. F.BROWNE. J.V.BRADY. S. M. NAVE. 

NAVE, McCORD & CO., 

WHOLESALE GROCERS 

AND DEALERS IN 

WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO, CIGARS. &c. 

Nos. 3 & 5 Third Street, 
Between Felix and Francis, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



4 



50 HISTOKY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



ever displayed, which reflects the highest credit on the human- 
ity of the public spirited proprietor. 

The city possesses many fine dwellings, which evince the 
taste and wealth of the inhabitants. They are mostly modern 
structures, erected within the past few years, and are scattered 
throughout the eligible localities of the city, no one point being 
the choice and fashionable spot. The nature of the hills 
rising back of the business portion of the city, offer admirable 
sites for the location of private residences, with tasty grounds, 
overlooking the beautiful valley and broad river, with the hills 
of Kansas beyond, over all of which the glow of the Western 
sun casts a halo of almost matchless magnificence and glory. 
The prominent building of the city is the beautiful Convent, 
crowning the hill, whose golden cross catches the latest rays otf 
the setting sun — 

" To tell this life of glory run." 

The new buildings and stores to be erected the present 
year will add largely to the architectual features of the city. 
Saxton & Russell are now erecting two handsome stores on 
Felix street. The State Lunatic Asylum for the Northwest, to 
cost $200,000, will be a handsome structure, though too far 
from town to give any character to its public buildings. The 
new County Court House, to cost $150,000, will be located in 
a commanding position and be a great ornament to the city. 

CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. 

St. Joseph has twenty-two church organizations and nine- 
teen church edifices, viz : Three Presbyterian, four Methodist, 
three Catholic, two Baptist, one Congregational, one Episcopal, 
one Protestant Evangelical, one Jewish and one Baptist, one 
Methodist and one Presbyterian Missionary Chapel. Its 
pulpit talent is excellent, and all the various religious denomi- 
nations are in a flourishing condition. 

It has fourteen public schools, including a high school, 
with a Superintendent of Public Instruction and forty-two 
teachers. The Public School system was inaugurated in 1864, 




BOMBECK & ZIPH 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

STEAM BOILERS, 

Sheet Iron and Copperwork, 

Chimneys & Breechings, 
BREWERY, 

Distillery and Soda Apparatus. 

'Jobbing and Repairing done promptly 
9 and satisfaction guaranteed. 

MESSAXIE, BETWEEN SIXTH AND SEVENTH STS. 

ST. JOSEPH, MQ. 

HAMILTON & BROTHER, 

DEALERS IN 

NATIVE LUMBER, 

SHINGLES, PICKETS AND FENCE POSTS. 

Corner of Fourth Street and Mitchel Avenue, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



SCTALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. 



H. R. W. HARTWIS & CO., 

Rectifiers and Wholesale Dealers in 

WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, 



AND PROPRIETORS OF 



HARTWIG'S ALPINE BITTERS, 

36 South Third Street, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



52 



HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



at which time the entire school property of the city did not 
exceed in value $10,000. It is now (1873) $108,000. During 
that year 478 pupils were enrolled, while the number has 
increased to 2,856 in 1873. The schools have been graded 
under the system which experience has proved to be the best 
in the East, which, with the excellent talent secured in the 
various departments, combine the best possible advantages to 
the youth of the city. The High School prepares pupils for 
admission into any College or University in the land. . It was 
organized in 1866, and has at present a daily attendance of 
130 scholars. Besides her public schools the city has several 
large and flourishing private schools, including the Young 
Ladies' Institute, Academy of the Sacred Heart, School of the 
Immaculate Conception, St. Joseph Day School and the St. 
Joseph College, conducted by the Christian Brothers. 



MISSOURI VALLEY HOUSE, 

Cor. Eighth and Edmond Sts. 9 




ST. JOSEPH, MO. 
TWO DOLLARS PER DAY. 



S. SALE. Proprietor, 




TRUNKS, VALISES, <fcc. 

NO. 33 Second Street, St. Joseph, Mo. 



54 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



We would call the particular attention of our 
readers to the following pages : 

THE RHYME OF THE RAIL. 

" Singing through the forests, 

Rattling over ridges, 
Shooting under arches, 

Rumbling over bridges, 
Whizzing through the mountains, 

Buzzing o'er the vale, — 
Bless me ! this is pleasant, 

Riding on the rail ! " 

The traveler contemplating a journey Eastward, takes as 
naturally as he would his breakfast or dinner, the old reliable 
and direct short line of the 

HANNIBAL & ST. JOSEPH BAILROAB, 

the best known road in the West, or at least in the State of 
Missouri. Its name is as familiar to him " as household 
words." It takes him directly Eastward 200 miles in an 
almost straight line, over a road so thoroughly graded, and in 
cars so clean and comfortable and well hung, that gliding over 
snow in a handsome cutter in winter, is not more pleasant nor 
agreeable. 

Quincy, the Eastern terminus, is reached in ten hours, 
and there, without change of cars, he may journey on to Chi- 
cago, Toledo, Indianapolis and Cincinnati ; at the latter city he 
will choose the Cincinnati and Marietta Kailroad, now under 
lease to the ^ 

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD, 

and cross the great bridge over the Ohio at Marietta, which 
has done away with the tedious transfer by boat at that point. 
After this the traveler is on the main line of the Great Route 
through the Allegheny Mountains, whose magnificent scenery 
is unsurpassed. The road winds through the valleys, skirting 
the base of lofty hills, along beautiful streams of water, with 
an unending variety of scenery to excite enthusiasm. The 
views at various points are sublime. The passage over 
Cheat river thrills the beholder with its grandeur. To 
narrate the beautiousness of the constant succession of 
vistas along this picturesque route would require much space, 
but the writer, who has thrice experienced the delights of the 



A. L. KERR. E.R. HORTON 



OKTO>: tl KERKi 

STORAGE, FORWARDING ABB 

Grain Merchants 

AND GENERAL STEAMBOAT AGENTS, 

Cor. Fourth and Olive Streets, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



Highest Cash Prices paid for Grain and Produce. Located on railroad 
track, with track scales. Buy and sell grain in car lots. Grain sold on 
commission or stored at low rates. 



WM. DOCKENDORFF, 

LUMBER YAED 

Cor. James and Eighth Streets. St. Joseph, Mo. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER DS 

PINE LUMBER, LATH. SHINGLES, SASH, BOORS, BLINDS, 

Fence Pickets. Lime, Hair, Plaster, Etc. 

Dealers Supplied at Chicago Prices. Transportation Added, 

SANDERS & WELCH, 

DEALERS ER 

Charter Oak, Emporia 



AND A VARIETY OE OTHER 



COOZECHLTO- STOVES, 



ALSO 



Refrigerators, Ice Chests & Ice Cream Freezers 

TIN PLATE, SHEET IRON, WIRE. STAMPED AND JAPANNED WARE, 

Xo. 6 Fourth Street, St. Joseph. Mo. 



* 



56 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



journey, would advise every one going East to make the trip 
by this road and enjoy its scenery ; go up to Washington, 
(without extra charge,) return to Baltimore, stop to see the 
" Monumental City," and then go onward to his journey's end. 



A MODEL NEWSPAPER. 

Probably, if there is one thing which, above all others, 
the average American citizen feels himself naturally and 
intuitively qualified to succeed in, it is the publication of a 
newspaper. You never find him pretending to know more 
about law than a lawyer ; he does not find fault with the pre- 
scriptions of a physician; he uncomplainingly accepts his 
theology from the clergyman ; but when it comes to a news- 
paper, he would like to take a hand in that himself. 

On no other theory can we account for the great number 
of newspapers which, during the past twelve years, have been 
started in St. Joseph, struggled through a feeble existence, 
and finally succumbed to the inevitable and departed, under 
the pressure of the auctioneer's hammer or the assignee's sale, 
in bankruptcy. This proves conclusively that only one man, 
among the thousand who attempt journalism, is qualified to 
succeed in that most difficult and arduous profession. The 
best and most distinguished writers in the world have failed to 
successfully edit a daily newspaper. We have known excel- 
lent writers to enter the journalistic field with a clear and well 
defined idea of what ought to be done, and in less than a 
twelvemonth leave in disgust, and cry out against an unappre- 
ciative public. One was determined to make a " strong" 
paper. His idea was to pepper the columns with italics and 
sprinkle the pages with ugly adjectives. He would have a 
" red-hot " newspaper — having not then learned that heated 
journals often burn the fingers of proprietors and generally 
injure the cause they seek to advocate. Another would have 
a " consistent " newspaper. In that, he confounded the jour- 
nalist with the journal. The newspaper cannot be made 
ridiculous to its readers by demonstrating that its conductors 
have made a wide departure from the ground they once occu- 
pied, for the sentiments of those readers have undergone a 
precisely similar change, and they rejoice in the progress which 
they and their newspaper have made. A newspaper which 
has reflected the popular will, and aided to direct the current 
of popular thought, cannot be injured by throwing at it the 
mud which has been dug out of its deserted channels. 



WM. GEBNANDT'S 

ST. JOSEPH TAH YARD 

DEALER £N 

LEATHER AND FINDINGS, 

Hides, Slieep Pelts, cteo. 

Frederick Avenue and 39 Second Street, 
ST. JOSEPH, 3IO. 



TERRA COTTA WORKS, 

St. J oseph, Mo., 
HABIC & HEDERLIN, PROP'S, 

DOOR AND WINDOW CAPS, CORNICES, 

Brackets, Modillions. Wall Brackets, Flower Vases, Rosettes, 
Hanging Baskets, Scroll Ornaments, &e. 

Column Caps in Five Different Orders. 

The attention of Architects, Builders and the Public generally is called to the 
several articles on the subject of Terra Cotta, its beauty, durability and economy of 
cost as worthy the attention of all persons intending to build. 



GEO. FIELD'S 

EUROPEAN RESTAURANT, 

; Francis Street, between Second and Third, 

Opposite Pacific House. 

Visitors to St. Joseph will find the above a quiet, well conducted Restaurant ; it 
is in the heart of the city and convenient to all the business houses. 

. I A LADIES' PRIVATE DINING PARLOR 

Is attached to the Establishment, besides two well arranged Dining Rooms. Choicest 
Delicacies of the season. Oysters and all kinds of Game in season. 

Claarges Moderate. 

j Coynfortable Beds and Accommodations Unsurpassed. 



58 HISTOKY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



All these reflections lead us to the conclusion that the men 
who successfully conduct a daily newspaper are very scarce. 
They must have peculiar qualifications for that responsible 
position, and none ever succeed — be they ever so gifted — who 
lack these essentials. 

We have been incited to these remarks by the unprece- 
dented success which has attended the journalistic efforts of 
Messrs. Wilkinson & Bittinger, proprietors of the St. Joseph 
Daily and Weekly Morning Herald. The paper was founded 
by Charles B. Wilkinson, who issued the first number on 
February 11th, 1862. In December of that year, he associ- 
ated with him John L. Bittinger. Mr. Wilkinson was bred a 
lawyer in the State of New York, and came to St. Joseph in 
1859 to practice that profession. Major Bittinger is a Penn- 
sylvanian, and has lived in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois and Saint 
Louis, where he has followed the profession of a printer and 
journalist, having been foreman on the Saint Louis Democrat 
and one of the editors and publishers of the St. Louis Bulletin, 
before engaging in the conduct of the Morning Herald. 

Every part of the business in the Herald Buildings — from 
the press room to the sanctum — is thoroughly understood by 
those two gentlemen. Their rooms are the finest and most com- 
plete of any in the entire West. Their building is a splendid 
three-story brick, iron front and iron window sills and caps, 
built expressly for a printing house. An elevator runs from 
the cellar to the third story. The cellar is occupied as a paper 
and press room, a steam engine and one of Hoe's cylinder 
power presses throwing off printed sheets like flakes in a 
blinding snow-storm. On the ground floor is the counting- 
room ; the second floor is occupied by the editors, and is neatly 
carpeted and the walls hung with choice paintings and engrav- 
ings ; the third floor is occupied as a composing room. Speak- 
ing-tubes and dumb-waiters connect each room with all the 
others, and the utmost order and regularity are preserved 
throughout the establishment. Since the third month of its 
existence, the Morning Herald has never failed to pay a hand- 
some profit to its enterprising proprietors. It has always 
enjoyed an extensive and paying commercial patronage, its 
advertisers hailing from all the leading cities in the Union. 
The proprietors have always been liberal in expending money 
for the latest telegraphic news from Jefferson City, St. Louis, 
Chicago and New York, and this liberality has been munifi- 
cently rewarded. Their subscribers now number more thou- 
sands than almost any other Western journal can show 



BRTOSON HOUSE, 

South Third Street, - - St. Joseph, Mo. 

MAGARET A. OWENS, Proprietor. 
A. R. BRUNSOJST, Manager. 

H. EAHN & CO., 

St. Joseph, Missouri, 

Watch Makers and Opticians. 

Fine Crystal and Peile Spectacles 

All Glasses Adjusted to the Eye, and 
Warranted to Suit. 

Also a large stock of Gold and Silver American and Swiss 
Watches. Clocks and Jewelry for sale at the. 
lowest possible prices. 
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Spectacles, Repaired. 

L.. C. HAFNER, 

Dealer in Staple and Fancy 

GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, 

Liquors, Cigars, <fee.. 

Cor. Tenth and Olive Streets, St. Joseph, Mo. 

Highest price paid for all kinds of Country Produce. 



60 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



hundreds, and their list extends to all the States in the Union 
but four. Their aim has ever been to furnish the latest and 
most reliable home and foreign markets, and the very latest 
news of every description. Republican in politics, its editors 
have criticised sharply and unsparingly every act of a friendly 
administration which in their judgment deserved it. The 
editorials are confessedly the most able of those in any journal 
West of the Mississippi. They employ a larger staff of city 
editors than any of their contemporaries, and a more able 
corps cannot be found anywhere. On their subscription books 
are the names of hosts of Democrats who appreciate a good 
newspaper though differing with it in politics. 

The Weekly Herald is carefully edited and contains every 
item of important news which occurs during the week, the full 
markets and a large amount of miscellaneous reading matter. 

The price of the Herald is for the daily, by mail, $9 per 
year, in advance ; delivered by carriers, fl per month. The 
Weekly is sent at the low price of $1.50 per year, payable in 
advance. 

J. C. OGDEN & CO., 

have lately opened a large and exclusive house in Hats, 
Caps, &c, and they solicit the trade of this and surrounding 
States. They are reliable and pleasant gentlemen to deal with, 
and having ample facilities and the largest stock west of 
Chicago and St. Louis, they are prepared to offer such induce- 
ments as will and must secure to them the trade of this vast 
western country. Merchants would do well to give them a 
call, when they will be ever ready and pleased to show their 
immense stock of goods. 

In all ages of the world, jewelry has been associated with 
refinement and cultivation. To the eye, gold, elegantly 
wrought or curiously fashioned, is always pleasurably attractive, 
and the passer-by of the fine store of 

BALDWIN & CO. 

finds himself gazing into the window to covet some pretty 
piece of jewelry, and, finally, entering the door to buy the 
same. Within, the attractions are so multiplied that the eye 
passes from one pretty object to another, wishing his purse were 
long enough to enable him to satisfy his desires. Elegant 
silverware, solid and pure, or from the famous Gorham Com- 
pany, whose plate is hardly distinguishable from the genuine 
article, Watches, Clocks, Bracelets, Earrings, Rings set in the 



J. C. WATERMAN. J. B. BERNARD. 

WATERMAN & BERNARD, 

WHOLESALE DEAL EMS LN 





J UUIUJ 

SASH AND BUILDING MATERIAL OF ALL KINDS, 

At the Lowest Cash Prices. 

Office & Yard South Fourth St., 
SAINT JOSEPH, MO. 

DEALER IN 




Italian and American Marble Monuments 

AND TOMB STONES. 

Cor. Ninth St. and Frederick, Ave.. ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

TOOTLE, CRAIG & CO., 

WHOLESALE 








Notions, Boots and Shoes. 

13 Third St., t>et. Edmond & Felix. 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



M. TOOTLE. 
A. C. CJtAIG. 
I. S. BALLIXGER 
WM. E. HO SEA. 
C. W. CAMPBELL 



62 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



precious stones or wrought into dainty shapes in pure gold — 
all are to be had. Baldwin & Co., cor. 4th and Felix streets, 
is the place. 

Thither, along Felix street, towards the land where gold is 
found in its virgin purity, is the store of 

HOTZ & RUSSELL, 

Jewellers, who, a young firm of young men — the successors of 
the old firm of Edwards &■ Symmons, in 1872 — are rapidly 
winning their way into the confidence of those who have means 
to invest in the luxuries of gold and precious stones. They 
have a large and complete assortment of the various articles 
required in their line of business, and always make satisfactory 
prices to their customers. 



WISE & ED GAB, LAW, INSURANCE AND CLAIM 

OFFICE. 

We call attention to the card of these gentlemen, who have 
had a long experience in their business. They represent a 
strong line of first-class companies with large assets. They 
are honorable, and any one having business with them can rely 
implicitly upon statements made by them concerning any 
business transaction. 



F. ENDEBROCK. 

This gentleman is proprietor of the large trunk manufactory 
on Second street, between Felix and Francis, where he is 
doing a business which has increased to such an extent during 
the past year, that he has scarcely been able to supply the 
demands of the trade which have been made upon him. The 
trnnks made at his house have found ready sale in nearly every 
section of the northwest, and are justly claimed to be in every 
respect superior to similar goods purchased in Eastern markets. 
He employs a large number of first-class workmen, uses the 
best of material, and is therefore enabled to warrant his work 
to every purchaser. 

BAILY, KAY & CO., DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. 

This house, at their commodious and elegant store on 
Third street, is one of the land marks of St. Joseph. In its 
line it has long since enjoyed the distinction of being one of the 
most valuable wholesale houses of St. Joseph. An ample 



THE OLDEST MUSIC HOUSE IN THE MISSOURI VALLEY 




(Successor to BEHR & ANDEL.) 
DEALER IN" FIRST-CLASS 



PianosJrpns&MiisicalMercianilise 

The Best and Largest Assortment of 

SHEET MUSIC & MUSIC BOOKS. 



New Music daily received from the Publishers. Any 
piece of Music will be sent to any address on receipt 
of Retail Price. Send for Catalogues and Price Lists. 

ADOLPH ANDEL, 

115 Felix Street, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



HENRY M. ItAMEY. C TIL LEX M. LINCOLN, j 

RAMEY & LINCOLN, 

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,?: 

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE, 

REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND 

Office, South Side Francis St., between 4th & 5th. 

ST. JOSEPH, - MISSOURI. 



Special attention given to Collections, Investiga- 
tion of Titles and all matters pertaining 
to the 

Law and Heal Estate Business. 



64 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



experience supplemented with large capital, and fortified by an 
integrity which is recognized wherever their names are known, 
have enabled the heads of this firm, Messrs. J. W. Bailey, and 
James Kay, to build up a trade which, while it is enriching 
themselves, is supplying a wide want in the northwest, and 
advancing the commerce of St. Joseph. The junior member 
of the firm, Mr. Raleigh, is a young gentleman who is fast 
winning his way to the first rank of our business men. Each 
year these gentleman olfer additional inducements to their 
customers. For 1873, they will advance so as to keep fully 
abreast with the growing wants of our splendid country. 

Among the best photograph galleries in the West, is that of 
A. LOZO, 

corner of 4th and Edmond. No gallery this side of Chicago 
and St. Louis can rival the arrangements and facilities he 
possesses to take the pictures of the numerous patrons who visit 
his rooms daily. Mr. Lozo is an artist and a gentleman in 
the fullest sense of these words, and visitors will always fiud 
him and his assistants courteous. His work is known far and 
near, in the Western States and territories, and is always satis- 
factory to the most fastidious and skeptical tastes. We say, 
give him a call. A visit to St. Joseph, not including a visit 
to his splendid and well arranged gallery, would be about 
about as incomplete as visiting Washington City and not 
viewing the Capitol. 

" We'll jump into a wagon, boys, 
And all take a ride." 

Must have been a song of the 

II A tt BISON WAGON, 

which is made at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and sold in large 
quantities in St. Joseph, Mo. It is one of the best and most 
durable wagons sold in this market, and like the deacon's 
famous one-horse shay, is so well and uniformly made that it 
will outlast the lifetime of its possessor, live he to the age of 
th r ee-scor e-and -ten . 



If the great manufacturing establishment of the. 

STUDEBAKEB WAGON COMPANY, 

at South Bend, Indiana, is famous throughout the West, it 
seems superfluous to add a word of praise to the products of a 



ST. JOSEPH 



DAILY WEEKLY GAZETTE. 




THE 

GAZETTE 

IS ISSUED 

DAILY AND WEEKLY, 

On New, Clear Type, and will be, in Every Respect, a 
Complete Newspaper. 

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 

DAILY. 



One Copy, per year, by mail $9 00 

One Copy, per month, (delivered by Carrier) 1 00 

WEEKLY. 

One Copy, six months $ 75 

One Copy, one year 1 50 

Clubs of Five, one year 1 50 

Clubs of Ten, and upwards, per year 1 50 



And one to getter up of Club. 

Papers Stop when Subscriptions Expire. 

RIDENBAUGH & CO. 



5 



66 HISTOKY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



company so well and favorably known. Every farmer who 
has used a Studebaker wagon knows its good qualities, and 
has spread the story of its durability and running qualities to 
all his neighbors around. Their establishment in St. Joseph 
has a full stock of all kinds of Farm Wagons, Gentlemens' 
Buggies, Carriages, &c. It is located on Fourth street, corner 
of James, and is represented by Mr. John S. Welch, who 
manages their business throughout this section. 



Western ability and enterprise is practically represented in 
the 

SAINT JOSEPH STEAM PRINTING COMPANY, 

formerly F. M. Posegate & Co. The initiation of this enter- 
prise was in 1869, when Mr. Posegate, formerly a proprietor 
of the Herald, erected a handsome building on the corner of 
Francis and Fifth streets, in connection with Mr. John W. 
Johnson. Here they toiled and reaped the fruits of well 
directed industry, until October, 1871, when the building 
proved inadequate to their constantly increasing business. 
Then Mr. Posegate resolved to enlarge his capital and his 
capacity to execute work, and turn his business into a joint 
stock company. The money was quickly raised, and the large 
and commodious three-story building on the corner of Felix 
and Second streets, (Market Square,) was secured. It is 
admirably adapted for a printing office, and is fitted up with 
all the accessories of a full and complete establishment for 
executing all kinds of printing, from the flaming Poster of 
many colors down to a Hand-bill ; from elegant and tasty 
County Bonds, in green and gold, down to a Bank Check ; 
from a clearly printed Book, down to a common Pamphlet. 
The company have among their corps of workmen, a Designer 
and Engraver, whose taste and skill is kept constantly in 
requisition in fulfilling the demands of customers. No estab- 
lishment in the West succeeds better in pleasing its customers 
and keeping up the standard of its work. 



ST, JOSEPH STARCH COMPANY. 

This is a large concern, with buildings covering two acres 
of ground. The crib which holds the material of manufacture 
is kept constantly full of 30,000 bushels of corn. As vast as 
this quantity seems it will only last a calendar month, for in 
eight hours one thousand bushels are ground up, and the 
starchy particles are settling in the Run House. This estab- 



ST. JOSEPH STANDARD 

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE 

Standard Publishing Company, 

R. R. CALKINS, Editor. 

Office cor. Second & Felix Sts. 

WITH ST. JOSEPH STEAM PRINTING COMPANY. 



Terms to Mail Subscribers : 

Single copy, one year $1 00 

Ten copies, one address 6 00 

Twenty copies, one address 10 00 

City subscribers, one year 60 

The Standard advocates home interests, home institutions, home 
manufactories and the development of the rich resources of the Great 
West. The industrial pursuits are the basis of social, moral and material 
progress here as elsewhere. The circulation of this paper, chiefly among 
thinking and business men, makes it especially desirable as an advertising 
medium. 

Geo. M. Teale. J. A. Nicely. 

GEO, M. TEALE & CO., 



DB0Gr GrlST 



DRUGS, TOILET GOODS, 

CHEMICALS & SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS 

Opera House and cor. Second and Francis Streets, 

D ir s ^?n e tT. 3tein ' a8urgioaI ( ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

WM. SIDEETFADE1T, 

Cor. Fourth and Messanie Streets^ 
Opposite Lyon's Lumber Yard, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

Keeps constantly on hand a large assortment of Metallic Cases and Wooden Coffins. 



68 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



lishment, duplicate of a similar concern owned and operated 
by the same parties in Madison, Indiana, was brought to St. 
Joseph under the auspices of the Manufacturers' Aid Associa- 
tion, who gave the ground on which the buildings are erected. 
The Company is composed of Messrs. O. Neill Bayley, James 
J. Irwin and C. C. Scott ; Mr. Bayley being President of the 
Company, and resident partner. These gentlemen have had 
years of long and successful experience in starch makingi The 
Company is now manufacturing principally for the German 
market, in fulfillment of orders from that country ; but is 
ready to fulfil orders for No. 1 starch for the Western demand. 
Their starch is chemically pure, made directly from what is 
know as " St. Charles white corn," and the wholesale grocers 
of St. Joseph deal exclusively in the products of this factory. 



St. Joseph takes great pride in her financial standing, and 
her banks attest her solidity and substantiability. 

THE STATE NATIONAL BANK, 

A. M. Saxton, President ; C. B. France, Cashier, received one 
of the first charters granted by the State. It was re-chartered 
in 1866, and was subsequently organized in accordance with 
the National Banking Law in 1867. It is located on the 
corner of Felix and Fourth steeets, in a handsome brick and 
stone structure which it owns. It has a solid capital of 
$100,000, its stockholders being among the wealthiest men of 
the city. 



THE GERMAN SAVINGS BANK, 

Was established in May, 1869, and is the youngest banking 
institution in the city. It supplied an existing want, and from 
its inception has been a successful institution. It occupies one 
of the finest buildings in the city, on the corner of Felix and 
Third streets, which it owns. The capital stock of the Com- 
pany is $100,000. Its Savings deposit is the largest of any 
bank in the city, and it has extensive dealings with the leading 
merchants of St. Joseph. Its officers are T. J. Chew, Jr., 
President ; Jacob Hauck, Vice President ; I. G. Kappner, 
Cashier. 

THE BUCHANAN BANK, 

Was organized in 1857, under the name of the Buchanan Life 
and General Insurance Company, and did for some years a 



T. ID. Sandusky, J. C. Pai/fte. L. F. Fleming 

SANDUSKY, FA.Y1TE <& GO., 



WJiolesaJe and Hetail I>ealers in 



LIE. HAIR. CEMENT. PLASTER, OIL 

Paints, Glass, Hardware & Building Material. 

8th St., bet. Edmond and Felix, 

ST. JOSEPH, - - MISSOURI. 

I860. 1*73. 

BUCHAXAX 

WOOLEN MILLS. 

GEORGE & W. H. BUELL, 

Manufacturers and Dealers in 

WOOLEN GOODS AND WOOL 

NORTH THIRD SXREEX. 



WHOLESALE TRADE SOLICITED. 



EXCELSIOR EXCELSIOR 

Coffee aRd Spice Mills. Steam Cracker Bakery. 



S. 13. KIIVGr <fc oo., 

l£4s^fartzrsrs izi Wholesale Dealers. 

TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES, 

CREAM TARTAR. MUSTARD. 

Baking Powder, Crackers, &c. 

SAIVT JOSEPH SOAP WORKS 

B. FETZNER c£ CO., 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

PLAIN AND FANCY SOAPS, 

O .A. 1ST IDLES, &C, 
Office i Manufactory, cor. Frederick Ave. i20»h$t.. ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



70 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



general banking and insurance business. Latterly its business 
has been banking exclusively. In 1871 it moved into its 
present quarters, corner of Edmond and Fourth streets, where 
it has greatly extended its business facilities, occupying a posi- 
tion among the oldest and most solid of the institutions of 
capital and enterprise in St. Joseph. Its capital is $100,000. 
Its officers are G. T. Hoagland, President ; John Williams, 
Cashier. 



HORTON & KERR'S 

Facilities for handling grain are unequalled, having extensive 
storehouses on the corner of Fourth ond Olive, contiguous to 
railroad tracks and steamboat landing. The success of this 
firm, with their well known standing in this community and 
the country around, puts them prominently forward as reliable 
grain and produce commission merchants. 



JET. S. BUCK & CO., 

Although a young firm, are doing a large business in the grain, 
produce and commission business. They have extensive facili- 
ties, and are prepared to handle large quantities of grain. 
The members of the firm are thorough going and reliable 
business men, and country merchants who consign produce to 
their care can rely on honorable and fair treatment at their 
hands. 



Wines and Liquors were sold in 1872 in St. Joseph to the 
amount of $1,000,000, and among the first and foremost houses 
to contribute to this result was the house of 

W EST II EI 31 ER BROTHERS, 

19 Second street, who have been long and favorably know as 
extensive dealers in their line of goods. Their stock of foreign 
wines and liquors is one of the largest and best in the city, 
and has been bought at such advantageous rates that they can 
sell at prices to suit customers far and near. They are the 
proprietors and manufacturers of the "Native American 
Stomach Bitters " — a tonic appetizer, and healthful. Those 
who must have their " bitters " will find the " Native Ameri- 
can" just the thing, and to fulfill the wants of man in his 
spiritual needs. 



JAMES H. RINGO. MURAT MASTERSON. 

RINGO & MASTERSON, 
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 

OFFICE— Cor. Fourth and Edmond Sts., 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



Will attend to the interests of clients in the Courts of Buchanan and adjoining 
counties, Supreme and United States Courts. Prompt attention to all suits con- 
cerning real estate, and voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy. 

GENERAL LAW AND INSURANCE, 

Pension! Bounty Claim Office. 

WISE <fc EDGAR, 

Have a large line of FIRST CLASS Fire Companies that will pay promptly in 
case of loss. Risks taken at CURRENT rates. Also District Agents for Covenant 
Mutual Life of St. Louis, Mo. 

OFFICE--N. W. Cor. Fourth and Edmond Sts., 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

X S. LEMON <& CO., 

WHOLESALE 



NOTIONS AND FURNISHING GOODS. 



Comer Third and Francis Streets, opp. Pacific Hotel, 

JOHNS. LEMON, 
JOHN OVKLMAN, 

^ V™- ST. JOSEPH, 1VEO. 

JAMES W. HOST A, 7 
CHAS. S. KEMPEK. 

B. B. FRAZER. ROBT. DOUGLAS. 

FRAZEH <& DOUGLAS, 

IMPORTERS OP 

QUEENSWARE AND CHINA, 

AND DEALERS IN 

Glassware, Mirrors, Lamps, Table Cutlery, Silver 
Plated and Britannia Ware, 
NO. 20 THIRD STREET. 

Three Doors South of Pacific Hotel, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



72 HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



The firm of 

S. ADLEB & CO., 
South Third street, are very extensive dealers in wines and 
liquors, and carry one of the largest and best selected stocks 
in the Northwest. They have also a large rectifying and dis- 
tilling establishment, where they re-distil and rectify cologne 
spirits and Bourbon whisky. The house is one of the best 
and most reliable in the Northwest. 



From foreign wines and liquors, we come to the house of 
C. POIRIER, 

Who deals in native wines and fruit brandies. One is always 
sure to find purity among his liquors, and his manufacture of 
Catawba, Concord, Virginia Seedling, &c, is unsurpassed for 
richness and palatableness. Mr. Poirier is the owner of an 
extensive vineyard at Wathena, Kansas, where on the slope of 
the hills his vines catch the mellow beams of the sun, and his 
fruit becomes ripest and most luscious, yielding juice the 
choicest, for his rare wines. 

TURNER, FRAZER & CO., 

Wholesale Grocers, are in the foremost ranks of St. Joseph 
merchants. The firm is R. E. Turner, J. M. Frazer and J. S. 
Britton. They are men of practical business talent who know 
how to control trade, as is evinced in their large business. They 
brought with them an extensive patronage which has been 
added to yearly, and has been the means of making them 
among the wealthiest and most successful business houses in 
the West. They buy their goods in such large lots that they 
can sell to the great advantage of their numerous customers. 

The Real Estate interests of St. Joseph and the surround- 
ing country are in the hands of 

DONOVAN & SAXTON. 

Mr. Saxton came here in 1843, when St. Joseph was an 
embryo city, and is known wherever St. Joseph is known. He 
is also President of the State National Bank. Mr. Donovan 
came here in 1866, from the Eastern shore of Maryland and 
is a gentleman and lawyer. The firm is one thoroughly to be 
relied upon for honesty and fair dealing, and are fully posted 
in Western lands, offering for sale some of the most eligibly 
located farms in the whole Western country, and some of the 
best lots in the city. 



WATERS «fc KJfAPP, 

Sannlfifs Hdhsr Billiard Hall 

MUUuUUlU 11UU0U JJ1111U1U HUH, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


Fm WENZ, 

Manufacturer and Dealer in 

jDUU to ciliU k9JJ.U<&»9 9 

4:9 and 51 Edmond St., 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


R. S. MUSSER, 

ATTORNEY AT LAW 

Prompt Attention given to collections. 
Office, corner Fourth and Francis Streets, 

SA.INT JOSEPH, MO. 


AVENUE FEED MILLS, 

Highest Cash Price Paid for 

Corn, Oats, &c 5 

Frederick ave., between Ninth and 
Tenth Streets, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO 


FRED BROWN* 

RESTAURANT, 

SOUTH SIDE OF 

Francis bet. Main & Second Sts., 

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. 


THEODORE TEXTOR, 

Manufacturer and Wholesale and Ketail Dealer in 

TOBACCO, CIGARS 

Snuff, Pipes and Smokers' Articles gen- 
erally, No. 47 Felix Street, (North side 
Market Square,) St. Joseph, Mo. Sign 
of the Indian Sauaw. 


W. L- Ceadwick. A. S. Lakey. 

W. L. CHADWICK & CO., 

A UCTION AND COMMISSION MER- 
J^. CHANTS, and Real Estate Agents, 
St. Joseph, Missouri. Consignments 
Solicited. Storage. 


JEFF. CHANDLER. WM. H. SHERMAN. 

CHANDLER & SHERMAN, 

Attorneys and Counselors at Law, 

St. Joseph, Mo. 


OSCAR MEISNER, 

FASHIONABLE 

StaviiMr Hair DpfigfiiiKT Rooms 

77 1-2 Felix Street, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


JOHN P. FINK, 

LEATHER AD FINDINGS 

And Wholesale Manufacturer of 
T71INE BOOTS, Boot Legs, Gaiter and 
Jj Shoe Uppers, South Third Street, 
below Charles, Saint Joseph, Mo. 


J. E. ROBERTS A CO., 

DEALERS IN 

Choice FAMILY GROCERIES 

Feed and Country Produce, 

130 Edmond Street, near Sixth. 


CITY FliOURING MIIXS. 

R. T. DAVIS & CO. 
Best Dianas 01 ramiiy riour. 

Third Street, bet. Isidore and Antoine, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


I>. W. STATHEM, 

Agent for the 

Oliipi OoWlily, lUQblllllD uu., 

COR. FIFTH AND FELIX STREETS, 

st. Joseph, m:o. 


Charter Oak Life Insnrance Co., 

OF HARTFORD, CONN., 

JEFF. WILLIAMS, 

Gen'l Agent for Missouri, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


TURNER «fc CURTIS, 

Dyers, Cleaners and Renovators 

29 SECOND STREET, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


YEGELY «fc KNEER, 

WHOLESALE CONFECTIONERS. 
VY Manufacturers of Candies, and 
dealers in 

T^T'ii i "f,s; - "TN'u.'fcs. <fec- • 

North side of Market Square, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



74 HISTOKY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



F. W. SMITH, 

Edmond street, entered the quarter section of ground lying 
East of Sixth street, way back in the year 1842. He is 
acknowledged to own more lots in the city than any other man, 
and he will sell or lease them on most advantageous terms. 



In the Queensware business, the principal wholesale and 
retail house is that of 

FINGER & RROWNE, 

On Third street, whose large sales help to aggregate the amount 
of $275,000 worth of wholesale Queensware sold in 1872. 
They occupy one of the finest buildings on Third street, and 
their commodious store is filled with an unequalled assortment 
of goods in their line. One can buy the most expensive, as 
well as the cheapest, crockery there; and cannot fail to go 
away satisfied with the bargains given them. The firm are 
very liberal men and know how to treat customers so as to 
secure their permanent trade. 



The leading and in fact the only Furniture house where 
any assortment is kept is that of 

LOUIS HAX, 

13 North Third street. Mr. Hax being an extensive manufac- 
turer as well as dealer, knows all the wants of his trade intu- 
itively. He has catered to the tastes of housekeepers for twelve 
years and knows how to fiurnish a house, either plainly or 
elegantly, according to the means of the party purchasing. 
His stock can satisfy the most expensive or the most economi- 
cal. In addition to furniture, he has a well selected stock of 
carpets of handsome patterns, and upholstery for windows, and 
mattresses and spring beds. So that he can furnish a house 
with almost everything except kitchen utensils and queensware. 



For Kitchen Utensils, one has but to drop into 

SANDERS & WELCH'S, 

6 South Fourth street, where he will find a full assortment of 
Stoves for parlor, bedroom or kitchen ; utensils for cooking, 
table knives and all sorts of household articles in domestic use. 
The firm takes pleasure in showing its goods, and will always 
make satisfactory prices to its customers. 



STZOSRS & BOETTNER, 
ARCHITECTS 

AND our t KIN 1 LNUtN 1 o, 

SAINT JOSEPH, MO. 

Office— 91 Edmond Street, 2d Floor, bet. 
Fourth and Fifth. 


WILLIAMS' 

CARRIAGE FACTORY. 

Cor. Fifth and Frederick Streets, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO, 
e^All work warranted. 
W £. WILLIAMS & SON. 


Mcdonald & lewis, 
HTSTJRA1TCE AGENTS 

Under State National Bank, 

St. Joseph, ]Vlo. 


FRED. SCHEIBE, 

UnU liiilb 1 & Ar U 1 nliibAn I 

Corner Third and Franklin Streets, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


J. J. CLARK & CO., 

Manufacturers and Sealers in 

Soots and Sh.oes, 

NO. 77 EDMOND ST., 
St. Joseph, Mo. 


W. S. EVERETT. M. A. EEED. 

EVERETT <fc REED, 

xxLLUIIIUjo d)L -Lid W , 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

Office— Francis Street, between Fourth 
and Fifth. 


I>. PHIPPS, 

MERCHANT TAILOU, 

No. 22 N. Third Street, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

A full assortment of Imported Cloths, 
Cassimeres and Yestings always on hand 
and made up to order in the latest style. 
Complete fits guaranteed. 


J. C. BENDER, 

Land and General Claim Agent, 

Buys and sells Real Estate, and collects 
Government Claims. 

97 Edmond St., St. JOSeph, MO. 


H. CRONEWEC, 

Manufacturer and Dealer in 

blears, iooacco, snuti, frpes, &c M 

No. 76 Edmond St., St. Joseph, Mo. 

BSrOrders promptly attended to. 


OSCAR SCHRAMM, 

Manufacturer and Dealer in 

fin A A*a A MM \Th HAM^W 

wicisr ctiiCL v ineg&r. 

Cor. of Second and Isidore Sts., 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


PH. COHEN, 
MptoIia n't", Tnilox* 

Third Street, under Pacific Hotel, 

St. Joseph, Mo. 


GILXISON k EOLSCHE, 

MERCHANT TAILORS, 

Third Street, one door north of Ger- 
man Savings Bank. 

St. Joseph, Mo. 


SAINT JOSEPH 

Medical Institute, 

Francis Street, Near Fifth, St. Joseph, Mo. 
c. d. hendrickson, m. - Principal. 

B^Chronic diseases especially treated. 


BUSH A COIXINS, 

Manufacturers of 

Double Edge Plows 

And Agricultural Implements. 
North Second St., Saiot Joseph. Mo. 


R. II. STUART, 

DEALER IN 

Stoves, Tinware, 

AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, 
Frederic/, ave., cot. Tenth and Eleventh Streets, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

Guttering and all Job Work promptly 
done. Country dealers supplied at low- 
est rates. 


HENRY HOFFMEISTER, 

Dealer in Choice 

fiies, Lipors, Cigars, k, 

Cor. Felix and Frederick Avenue, 
ST. .JOSEPH, MO 



HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



76 

VINELAND NURSERIES, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, &c. 

Six Greenhouses. Catalogues Free. 
CLAGGETT & MUNGEB. 



HENRY BOWERS, 

Fashionatte Boot ana Shoemaker, 

Cor. Edrnond and Fifth Streets, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



The Lumber trade of St. Joseph is not more ably repre- 
sented than by the house of 

WATERMAN & BERNARD, 

Who carry a large stock of all kinds of lumber, shingles, doors, 
sashes, and everything pertaining to the trade. They can 
figure down to a very low margin, as they know how to buy to 
the best advantage and always keep a full stock. They buy 
direct from the pineries of Michigan and Wisconsin. 



Next to them in material interests, comes 

WM. I) O CKEND ORFF, 

Who is also an extensive dealer in the various kinds of Lum- 
ber. Mr. DockendorfPs experience in the business is second 
to none in the city. No yard will be found better supplied 
with all the accessories to the erection of buildings of any kind. 
His prices are always as low as the lowest. 



From Lumber, one naturally passes to Saw Mills, or rather 
from Saw Mills to Lumber. The firm of 

HAMILTON & BROTHER, 

Corner Fourth and Mitchel avenue, have always on hand, right 
from their Mills, sawed Lumber of any size, and can fulfill 
orders for any material needed. They are among the oldest 
and most reliable lumbermen in the West, and know how to 
satisfy their patrons. 



It is said that Aladdin's palace was erected in a night, but 
that was by magic. The 

MISSOURI VALLEY HOUSE, 

Corner Eighth and Edmond streets, was erected in three weeks, 
and there it stands a solid, substantial structure, ready to 
receive its patrons, fill them with substantial food and lodge 



BAUBLITS & BEEMS, 

Manufacturers of 

Cider and Tinegar 

287 North Third Street, 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


Commercial Hotel 

Cor. Sixth & Angelique Sts., 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

JOSEPH McINERNY, Prop'r. 


E. E. BACON, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

CHOICE GROCERIES, 

Provisions, Fruits Ac., 

Cor. of Third and Jule Sts., 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


CLOVES KILL LIVERY, 
Sale and Feed Stable 

North Side Edmond, 

Beti 5th and 6th, 
ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

WM.DEVORSS, Proprietor 

Best of Livery Always on Hand. 
Charges Reasonable. 


GEORGE SCHMIDT, 

FukiuaUg Shaving 

AND 

HairDressingRooms 

rfixtn at* jset. %s navies cc J^<t?notia^ 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 


MICHAEL M C GEE, 

MANUFACTURER OF 

Saddles, Bridles, 

Harness, Collars, Whips. &i, 

SeconcPstreet,} ST. JOSEPH. 

All work Made Strong and Sold Cheap. 
Orders from Abroad Promptly 
Attended to. 


ST. JOSEPH PAINTING CO., 

HOUSE, SIGN AND BANNER 

Painters aid Grains 

Manufacturers of 

0. A. Wagner's Liquid Slating, 

For Black Boards— the Best in Use. 

Cor. of Fourth & Francis Sts. 

c't'oacch ER ' I AU 0rders from the Countr y 

GEO. W. POOLEE. ) Prom P t 'y Attended to. 


JOHN DEUSCHLE, 

DEALER IN 

HATS, CAPS 

Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods 

No. 79 Edmond Street. 

Bet. Third & Fourth Sts.. 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



78 



HISTOEY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



one or many nights as they may see fit, or their purse may 
enable them to stay. It is a well managed, orderly house, and 
its worthy host a knows how to keep a hotel." 



The amount of Soap consumed in a section is said to be an 
unerring indication of the cleanliness of its people, and as 

B. FETZNER & CO., 

Frederick avenue, make good Soap, and sell more than they 
can make ; they are civilizers of the country. All the whole- 
sale grocers of the city handle the various brands of Soap 
made by this firm. 



ST. JOSEPH STANDARD. 

This is a neat, twenty column, weekly paper, conducted 
with ability by Mr. R. E,. Calkins, and printed by the St. 
Joseph Steam Printing Company. The Standard gives princi- 
pally industrial news, and works earnestly in behalf of all the 
industrial pursuits and whatever pertains to the social and 
material progress of the West. As a St. Joseph and Western 
newspaper it merits a very liberal support. 



GEO. & W. H. BVELL, 

Are the owners of the Buchanan Woolen Mills, on North 
Third street. No establishment in our city, or indeed in all 
Northwest Missouri, is better known than the St. Joseph 
Woolen Mills. Its wares can be found in every family almost 
within one hundred miles of St. J oseph, and when their goods 
have been once established no other manufacture can drive 
them out of the market, which is the best word we can say for 
the superiority of their fabrics. 



BOMBECK & ZIPM, 

Messanie street, commenced business as Boiler Makers, in 1871, 
and have worked up a reputation which has secured them a 
large patronage. They make a specialty of everything used 
in a distillery or brewery. 



S. D. KING d> CO. 

Something over two years ago this firm established their 
cracker factory on the East side of Fourth street, since which 



HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH. 



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time they have continued in a career of successful prosperity. 
They are now running one of the most extensive factories in 
the West, and the excellent quality of their goods has made a 
demand for them at every roadside store, town and village 
within striking distance of St. Joseph. They manufacture 
crackers of every conceivable variety, and have during the past 
year disposed of considerably over $100,000 worth of the 
excellent product of their bakery. Orders for their house are 
promptly filled, and in all their business transactions, the 
strictest rules of honesty and upright dealing are made the 
governing principles of the firm. 



Finally, " all things have an end," and the last act our 
friends can do for us after we are placed away in our narrow 
sepulchre is to place above us a Monument, telling the passing 
stranger who we are, and perchance recording our virtues. 

1, B. THOMPSON, 

Marble Headstones, &c., Frederick avenue, furnishes all kinds 
of working in marble, not alone for memento mori but for man- 
tels, brackets, &c. 



FIRST YEAR. 



ST. JOSEPH, 

ITS 

TRADE AND MANUFACTURES. 



BEING A COMPLETE SKETCH OF THE CITY SINCE ITS EARLIEST DAYS, 
ITS RAPID GROWTH, ATTRACTIONS, ADVANTAGES, RESOURCES, 
MANUFACTURES, MERCANTILE INTERESTS, RAIL 
ROAD FACILITIES, PROSPECTS, BUSINESS 
HOUSES, ETC., ETC., ETC. 



Danis & Co. Editors and Compilers. 



ST. JOSEPH, MO.: 
Printed by thb St. Joseph Steam Printing Company. 
1873. 



JOHN TOWNSEND. WM. H. WOOD. 

TOWNSEND & WOOD. 



J obbers and Retail Dealers in 



DRY GOODS, 



PP» AND NOTIONS, 

jfl 87 Fells Street, Bet. Third and Fourth, 

^ ^ ST. JOSEPH. 

Sign of the Gilt Star. 



PHO TOGRAP HS! 

A.. IjOZO 

HAS REMOVED 

T O 

The Corner of Fourth and Edmond, 

Where he Ixas one of tlxe 

Best Arranged Galleries in tie ffest! 

Give Him a Call and Judge for Yourselves. 

STUDEBAKER BROS. 

Manufacturing Comp'ny 

WE HAVE the largest stock of BUGGIES, CARRIAGES and SPRING WAGONS 
ever brought to the West, and do not sell anything made outside of our own 
shops- 

Top Buggies, from '....$200 00 to $350 00 

No Top Buggies, from 100 00 to 200 00 

Spring Wagons, from 80 00 to 175 00 

Do IVot Buy Oliea/p Custom Work, 

But look our Stock over carefully, and you will be pleased. 

Shop- -On Comer Fourth and James Sts., 

ST. JOSEPH, MO. 

JOHN S. WELCH, Manager Western Branch. 




FAMILY SEWING MACHINE, 




PRINCIPAL OFFICE WEST, 
NO. 117 FELIX STREET, 
SAINT JOSEPH, MO. 

L. L. RICHMOND, General Agent. 



Keeps Ramsey's Paper Patterns. 

THE REMINGTON does not base its claims upon antiquity of invention, nor upon 
reputation acquired and success attained when the art of sewing by machinery 
was in its infancy, nor upon a slight alteration of old devices, by which means old 
fogy Companies have setup claims to improvement and sought to perpetuate the sale 
of obsolete Machines, but we come before the public entirely new, and rely alone 
upon our SUPERIOR MERITS. 

ITS CONSTRUCTION 

Is a marvel of simplicity. Its motions are all positive, its bearings few, its friction 
consequently slight, and its durability unequalled. 

It is now fully acknowledged by all experienced Sewing Machine dealers and 
operators that the perfect symmetery of all its parts, the absolute accuracy of 
their adjustment, the absence of cogs and all jarring motion, the direct, simple and 
powerful action upon the needle bar and feed make this at once the 

Lightest Running, the Most Nearly Noiseless and the Most Powerful 

Family Machine in the world, and capable of a greater range of work than any 
other. 

ITS FEED IS AUTOMATIC, 

Constructed upon principles never before applied to any Machine, moving the work 
in a straight line from the operator without the assistance of the operator's hand, 
and enabling the beginner to hem, fell, cord, bind, gather, and perform all kinds 
of work with the same perfect ease with which a plain seam would be made upon 
any other Machine. 



TEST O W MERIT. 

"The number of sales of a Sewing Machine should be a just test of merit. The 
celebrated Remington Family Sewing Machine was first put in the market May 7th, 
1872; in the first six months, 30,000 machines were sold f Not more than 10,000 of 
any other machine has been sold the first year. In December last, the sales of the 
Remington Machine exceeded 15,000. 

"The manufactory at Illion, N. Y. , covers seven acres of ground. The new office 
in this city, fitted up in the neatest style, is at 117 Felix street, and L. L. Richmond, 
Esq., the general agent here, has control of all the territory west of the-- Mississippi 
river. Mr. R. is a Serving Machine man from morning till night ; he has ability and 
much experience, and to his careful management and liberal advertising is attributed 
a large share of the great success of this Machine in the West. A large number of 
other Machines have been taken in exchange for the Remington, a fact which speaks 
loudly in its favor. Mr. Richmond is thoroughly posted, and the machine which he 
represents he recommends, fully and heartily, on its merits."— St. Joseph Standard. 



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